Does early child care affect children's development?

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.01.014

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“…While informal care seems to have negative consequences for child development (Herbst 2013), public daycare attendance has no negative or even positive effects, especially for disadvantaged children (e.g. Currie andThomas 1995, 1999;Datta-Gupta and Simonsen 2010;Felfe and Lalive 2017;Dustmann et al 2015).…”

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“…The existing literature seems to come to the conclusion that high-quality public daycare benefits children, especially from low-income and less educated families (see Dustmann et al 2015;Felfe and Lalive 2017 for Germany; Havnes and Mogstad 2011b for Norway; and Almond and Currie 2011 for a general survey and discussion of Head Start and the Perry Preschool Experiment, in particular). The observed shift away from public daycare among low-skilled families is then bad news for their children -a situation which we know is difficult to compensate later in life (Almond and Currie 23 The increase in working hours could either be an increase in working hours among all working women or a selection effect where only mothers with long working hours remain in the labor market.…”

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. Abstract Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of -0.6. There is little labor supply response in the full sample, though declines for vulnerable subgroups. Spillover effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members.Acknowledgments: We thank Iwan

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Studies in Argentina (Berlinski et al (2009)), Germany (Cornelissen, Dustmann, Raute, and Schönberg (2015) and Felfe and Lalive (2015)), Norway Mogstad (2011, 2015) and Drange and Havnes (2015)), (Felfe, Nollenberger, and Rodríguez-Planas (2015)), and the US (Cascio and Schanzenbach (2013)) all point to gains in test scores from participation in early childhood education, and some identify stronger effects for disadvantaged children. Although the estimates are not directly comparable across studies, the test score effects appear to diminish with age.…”

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“…Berlinski et al (2009) estimate the effects of a universal program in Argentina and find positive effects on student self-control in the third grade, while Datta Gupta and Simonsen (2010) find that enrollment at 3 years of age in the universal childcare program in Denmark does not affect noncognitive outcomes at 7 years, regardless of the child's gender and her or his mother's education. Lastly, Felfe and Lalive (2015) examine the effect of childcare enrollment in Germany before 3 years of age on development at 6 years and conclude that enrollment improves the socioemotional development of children of less-educated mothers.…”

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How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?

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We estimate the effects of childcare enrollment on child outcomes by exploiting a staggered childcare expansion across regions in Japan. We find that childcare improves language development among boys and reduces aggression and the symptoms of ADHD among the children of low-education mothers. Estimates show that the improved child behavior is strongly associated with better parenting quality and maternal wellbeing. Evidence also suggests that promoting positive parenting practices is an important element of an effective childcare program. Our estimates for marginal treatment effects indicate that children who would benefit most from childcare are less likely to attend, implying inefficient allocation.

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The effect of preschool attendance on Children's health: Evidence from a lower middle‐income country

Cuong

2022

Health Economics

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In this study, we find that children in Vietnam who were born in December of a given year have better health outcomes than those born in January of the following year. Children born in December are taller, heavier, and less likely to be underweight and suffer from stunted growth than those born in January of the following year, though these two groups of children differ in age by only 1 month. We argue that the effect of being born in December compared to January on children's health is translated through early preschool attendance. In Vietnam, children born in December are more likely to start preschool as well as primary school 1 year earlier than those born in January of the following year. Thus, the health benefit for a child born in December would come from earlier and longer exposure to preschool. Importantly, we find that the positive effect of preschool persists over time as children grow. A possible major reason why preschool attendance improves health is the nutrition provided for children in preschools.

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Does early child care affect children's development?

Cited by 204 publications

References 36 publications

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?

The effect of preschool attendance on Children's health: Evidence from a lower middle‐income country

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