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Who benefits from universal child care? Estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance
In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from the full population of compulsory school entry examinations, we find that 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 disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment effects because of their worse outcome when not enrolled in child care.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 08/18
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Education: Government Policy
- Subject
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Universal child care
child development
marginal treatment effects
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Cornelissen, Thomas
Dustmann, Christian
Raute, Anna
Schönberg, Uta
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
- (where)
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London
- (when)
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2018
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cornelissen, Thomas
- Dustmann, Christian
- Raute, Anna
- Schönberg, Uta
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Time of origin
- 2018
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