Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …. Heterogeneity analysis indicates more pronounced effects for children from disadvantaged areas, earlier detection of vision problems …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school …

differences in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services as an exogenous source of variation, and controlling for local … level heterogeneity that could drive the results, we estimate the effect of ECEC attendance by refugee children on their …