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...

Este documento tiene por objetivo acercar este debate a la realidad latinoamericana a través del análisis de los tiempos de espera de las familias, mujeres y hombres adultos, que llevan a sus hijos e hijas menores de 3 años al control pediátrico del niño sano en Montevideo. En particular,...

We estimate the short- and long-term effects of universal preschool education by analyzing the impact of the Israeli Preschool Law, which mandated the provision of public preschool for ages 3 and 4 starting in September 1999. We focus on the Arab population, who were the main beneficiaries of...