employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … outcomes of children, via estimating a cognitive ability production function that corrects for the endogeneity of inputs. We …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family … step, we simulate how an increase in formal childcare attendance can affect inequalities across children. Our results show … that childcare attendance has a positive impact on child cognitive outcomes, which are stronger for children from low socio …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the shortor medium-run. Our precise estimates …

in the treatment group five years of high-quality child care along with case management. As a result, treated children … variation to estimate the impact of center care on children's language and social skills as well as health. I uncover mixed … both effects fade-out for most children within one to two years. I also find that early center care use is strongly …