By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment … provided differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences of … Germany'-Study for 2010 and 2011 (N=3,301 mothers) with regional structural quality data. We used regression models of …

. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …