Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
introduced a set of reforms that led to a substantialexpansion of public child care for under three year old children. Using … administrativecounty-level data, we exploit within-county variation in this expansion and find evidencethat the provision of public child … care causes an increase in birth rates. Extendedempirical specifications suggest that our results are neither confounded by …