Early child care and child development. For whom it works and why.

Autor/inn/en	Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael
Titel	Early child care and child development. For whom it works and why.
Quelle	München: CESifo (2012), 44 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 4043. 5, Economics of education
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen; Literaturangaben S. 34-37
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	1617-9595
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Panel; Fertigkeit; Mutter; Kind; Kindertagesbetreuung; Kindertagesstätte; Bundesland; Entwicklung; Wirkung; Deutschland
Abstract	Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? The authors address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. They study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in child care supply as exogenous variation in child care attendance. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel provides comprehensive information on child development measures along with detailed information on child care, mother-child interactions, and maternal labor supply. Results indicate strong differences in the effects of child care with respect to observed characteristics (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection into child care. Underlying mechanisms are a substitution of maternal care with center-based care, an increase in average quality of maternal care, and an increase in maternal earnings. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2013/2