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 …

endogeneity associated with the parental decision of sending children to day care centers (or preschools) is addressed … parental decisions, children's endowments, and child care characteristics. The results of the study suggest that: (i) cognitive … and socioemotional test scores from children younger than two are too noisy to be analyzed; (ii) analysis of enrollment in …

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 …