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 …

We estimate the short- and long-term effects of universal preschool education by analyzing the impact of the Israeli …-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent …

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the … benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …

impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

show that the impacts of the intervention are significantly greater in children with low PGS, to the point that the … intervention eliminates the initial genetic disadvantage. Lastly, we find that children with high PGS attract more parental … stimulation; however, the latter increases more strongly in children with low PGS. …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare). …