Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

By T. Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, A. Raute, Uta Schönberg. Journal of Political Economy, 2018

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We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion staggered 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. 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.

Subfields: Education

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The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston (2021, unknown): “Related studies outside the United States include Baker, Gruber, and Mil-ligan (2008), Havnes and Mogstad (2011, 2015), Gertler et al. (2014), Cornelissen et al. (2018), Felfe and Lalive (2018), and Baker, Gruber, and Milligan (2019).”
Do children benefit from universal early childhood education and care? A meta-analysis of evidence from natural experiments (2018, methodology): “These studies use Instrumental Variables (e.g. Drange & Havnes, 2015; Cornelissen et al., 2017), Difference-in-Differences (e.”
The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program (2019, unknown): “Finally, Cornelissen et al. (2018) explores a policy reform of the German child care system that entitles every child to a place on their third birthday.”
Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, result): “This is consistent with recent studies of selection into early-childhood programs and charter schools, which also find negative selection on test score match effects (Cornelissen et al., 2016; Kline and Walters, 2016; Walters, 2018).”
The Demand for Effective Charter Schools (2018, unknown): “Recent studies of early childhood education programs also find negative selection on treatment effects (Kline and Walters 2016; Cornelissen et al. 2018).”
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes (2019, unknown): “MTEs are treatment effects for individuals with a particular resistance to treatment (Cornelissen et al. 2016).”