Children from disadvantaged families have lower levels of school readiness when they enter school than do children from … implemented more recently in the US, find that the programs do improve outcomes for young children, particularly for those from …

, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …'s well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The overall effect of maternal and paternal employment on children …'s cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …

in 2005 to just under 171 euros in 2015 for a child under three and for children three and older (“Kindergarten”1 age …

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 …

them a key context in which children learn. For children from migrant backgrounds who speak a foreign language at home … factor in this respect is the composition of a child’s peer group. Do children from migrant backgrounds attend ECEC centers … Germany of how children, and children from migrant backgrounds in particular, are distributed across ECEC centers, thus …

parental leave benefits compared to the EU and norms encouraging mothers to care for children. I carry out an event study to …