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Early childhood care and cognitive development

Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020

This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...

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Mandatory day care for preschool children would not be an effective solution in targeting particular children

Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 19, pp. 159-166

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the … remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged … present study is one of the first representative studies to look at preschool children three and older who do not attend a day …

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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...

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