More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany … 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 …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany … 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 …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany … 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 …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …