One billion euro program for early childcare services in Italy

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In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public supply of early childhood educational services. We find that the ratio between the available slots in public early childhood education and the population of those aged 0-2 increased by 17.2% three years after the start of the program, with respect to the pre-program level. The program impact was however limited in the South and mostly driven by the Center-North.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 459

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General ; Education: Government Policy ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
• Thema: Early childcare services ; public early childhood education ; government transfers ; difference-in-differences

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Giorgetti, Isabella ; Picchio, Matteo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2020

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/213326