Early care and education (ECE) enables parental employment and provides a context for
child development. Theory suggests that lower child care costs, through subsidized care or …

Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research
and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has …

Population aging is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining
fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are …

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous
research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of …

Since the mid-1960s, many state governments have introduced subsidies for school districts
that offer kindergarten. This paper uses the staggered timing and age targeting of these …

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school
facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school …

Using a natural experiment framework, we study the effects of offering full-time public
childcare for 3-year-olds in a context of low female labor force participation and insufficient …

Three states recently introduced universal prekindergarten programs offering free preschool
to all age-eligible children; policy makers in many other states are promoting similar …

Exploiting exogenous variation in childcare prices stemming from a childcare price reform,
this paper estimates effects of reductions in childcare costs on female labour supply. The …

After the introduction of the Law on Childcare in 2005, childcare subsidies in the
Netherlands became much more generous. Public spending on childcare increased from 1 …