Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta
• 署名单位: University of York - UK; University of London; University College London; University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/699979
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 2356-2409
• 关键词: disability insurance receipt; instrumental variables; school readiness; Preschool; TECHNOLOGY; outcomes; models; HEALTH; education; impacts

摘要

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.