populous province in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centres, family … per day child for children aged 4 years. In successive years, the government reduced the age requirement and engaged in a …, the low-fee policy applied to all children aged 0 to 59 months (not in kindergarten) and the number of partly subsidized …

worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity … children ; childcare ; quasi-natural experiment ; differences-in-differences-in-differences …

worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity …

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 …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …