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Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive application information and personal assistance for applications. For lower-SES families, the treatment increases child care application rates by 21 pp and enrollment rates by 16 pp. Higher-SES families are not affected by the treatment. Thus, alleviating behavioral barriers closes half of the SES gap in early child care enrollment.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14698
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Field Experiments
- Subject
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child care
early childhood
behavioral barriers
information
educational inequality
randomized controlled trial
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hermes, Henning
Lergetporer, Philipp
Peter, Frauke
Wiederhold, Simon
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hermes, Henning
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Peter, Frauke
- Wiederhold, Simon
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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