Gørtz, Mette; Jensen, Vibeke Myrup; Sander, Sarah - 2024
Many parents return to work, placing their child in nonparental care before the age of one. Using variations in daycare … vacancy rates, we estimate the causal effects of enrollment age in universal daycare on child development. In general, we find … no evidence that earlier enrollment harms early child development, except for a temporary health shock. Children who …