Arbeitspapier
Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment
Why are children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) substantially less likely to be enrolled in child care? We study whether barriers in the application process work against lower-SES children - the group known to benefit strongest from child care enrollment. In an RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (N = 607), we offer treated families information and personal assistance for applications. We find substantial, equity-enhancing effects of the treatment, closing half of the large SES gap in child care enrollment. Increased enrollment for lower-SES families is likely driven by altered application knowledge and behavior. We discuss scalability of our intervention and derive policy implications for the design of universal child care programs.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IWH Discussion Papers ; No. 13/2024
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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application barriers
child care
early childhood
educational inequality
information
randomized controlled trial
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hermes, Henning
Lergetporer, Philipp
Peter, Frauke
Wiederhold, Simon
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
- (wo)
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Halle (Saale)
- (wann)
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2024
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hermes, Henning
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Peter, Frauke
- Wiederhold, Simon
- Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
Entstanden
- 2024
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