on a fullday basis on children’s skill development just before entering primary school. Identification relies on a … administrative data covering almost 100'000 children, we find positive effects on immigrant children’s school readiness. Yet, at the … same time immigrant children suffer in terms of their socio-emotional development, a finding we also observe among native …

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 …. We find no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …

, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also … children. Our findings, based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey of Children and Adolescents …, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however …

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

Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what …

pedagogic staff of 734 ECEC institutions which were attended by children in SOEP households. Parents and staff were asked to …

pedagogic staff of 734 ECEC institutions which were attended by children in SOEP households. Parents and staff were asked to …

children. Thus, if a mother is to engage in such work, someone else must care for her children during work hours. However, non …

married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related … to improve the child care options for mothers with young children working in nonstandard jobs. …