Cornelissen, Thomas orcid.org/0000-0001-8259-5105, Dustmann, Christian, Raute, Anna et al. (1 more author) (2018) Who benefits from universal child care?:Estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance. Journal of Political Economy. 2356–2409. ISSN 1537-534X
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion 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. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: 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.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2018 16:30 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2025 05:23 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1086/699979 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1086/699979 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126965 |
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