Cornelissen, Thomas and Dustmann, Christian and Raute, Anna and Schönberg, Uta (2018) Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance. Journal of Political Economy, 126 (6). pp. 2356-2409. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/699979
Cornelissen, Thomas and Dustmann, Christian and Raute, Anna and Schönberg, Uta (2018) Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance. Journal of Political Economy, 126 (6). pp. 2356-2409. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/699979
Cornelissen, Thomas and Dustmann, Christian and Raute, Anna and Schönberg, Uta (2018) Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance. Journal of Political Economy, 126 (6). pp. 2356-2409. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/699979
Abstract
We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion staggered across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from the full population of compulsory school entry examinations, we find that children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment effects because of their worse outcome when not enrolled in child care.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Source info: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7162 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | J13; J15; I28; universal child care; child development; marginal treatment effects |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2020 14:37 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:26 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/25720 |
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