Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Christina Felfe, Natalia Nollenberger () and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

No 7053, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children.

Keywords: cognitive skills; universal high-quality childcare; long-term consequences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2012-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (49)

Published - published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 393-422

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp7053.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development (2015)
Working Paper: Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7053

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().