The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

second most populous province in Canada. Licensed and regulated providers of childcare services began offering day care … spaces at the subsidized fee of $5 per day per child for children aged 4. In successive years, the government reduced the age … such important policy changes for preschool (including kindergarten) children were enacted in the nine other Canadian …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …

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 …