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Impact of Early Childcare on Immigrant Children’s Educational Performance

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational System (INVALSI) for school years 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 matched to unique administrative records on the early childcare public available slots at the municipal level. Our identification strategy exploits cross-sectional and time series variation in the provision of early childcare service across Italian municipalities as an instrument for individual early childcare attendance. Our results point out that the effect of early childcare attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated mothers, which suggests that early childcare may be particularly relevant for immigrant children from a disadvantaged background.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 394

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Education and Research Institutions: General
Education: Government Policy
Thema
Childcare
Cognitive skills
Immigrant children

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Corazzini, Luca
Meschi, Elena
Pavese, Caterina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Corazzini, Luca
  • Meschi, Elena
  • Pavese, Caterina
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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