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Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

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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.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: IWH Discussion Papers ; No. 13/2024

Classification: Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

Subject: application barriers
child care
early childhood
educational inequality
information
randomized controlled trial

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Hermes, Henning
Lergetporer, Philipp
Peter, Frauke
Wiederhold, Simon

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

(where): Halle (Saale)

(when): 2024

Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET

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Hermes, Henning
Lergetporer, Philipp
Peter, Frauke
Wiederhold, Simon
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

Time of origin

2024

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