The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation 'Dip'

Herbst, Chris M.

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“…4 One reason previous studies have found conflicting results could be that the counterfactual scenario is not always clear: the consequences of maternal employment for child development early in life might be very different if the child goes to a high-quality daycare than if it goes to an informal care arrangement. While informal care seems to have negative consequences for child development (Herbst 2013), public daycare attendance has no negative or even positive effects, especially for disadvantaged children (e.g. Currie andThomas 1995, 1999;Datta-Gupta and Simonsen 2010;Felfe and Lalive 2017;Dustmann et al 2015).…”

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. Abstract Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of -0.6. There is little labor supply response in the full sample, though declines for vulnerable subgroups. Spillover effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members.Acknowledgments: We thank Iwan

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…These e↵ects are larger for children of more educated mothers in this disadvantaged group. Herbst (2013) uses the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth cohort (ECLS-B) and estimates negative e↵ects of being in non-parental care at 9 and 24 months on children cognitive scores and motor development. However, outcomes are measured during the treatment and variation of time spent with parents is generated by the comparison between Summer and Winter months.…”

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 002 for Girls

2016

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Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal e↵ects of daycare at age 0-2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8-14. One additional month in daycare reduces IQ by 0.5% (4.5% of a standard deviation). E↵ects for conscientiousness are small and imprecisely estimated. Psychologists suggest that children in daycare experience fewer one-to-one interactions with adults, which should be particularly relevant for girls who are more capable than boys of exploiting cognitive stimuli at an early age. In line with this interpretation, losses for girls are larger and more significant, especially in a✏uent families. JEL-Code: J13, I20, I28, H75

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“…5 However, quality measures are available only at Wave 2, so there may still be unobserved quality effects. Even if the coefficient of the instrument is not significant in quality equations (except for five cases), Herbst (2013) Besides the findings mentioned above, it has been shown that there are benefits from attending high-quality child care settings (Abner, Gordon, Kaestner and Korenman, 2013;Peisner-Feinberg, Burchinal, Clifford, Culkin, Howes, Kagan and Yazejian, 2001;Hill, Waldfogel and Brooks-Gunn, 2002;NICHD and Duncan, 2003). 6 While the OLS and mother fixed effects results from Blau (1999) exhibit wrong signs, especially for the child-staff ratio and training variables, he finds small but significant effects of small group size on the cognitive development of children.…”

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Mother’s Employment, Child Care Use and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Pekkurnaz

2018

Yönetim Ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi

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This paper aims to analyze the effects of mother's employment and non-parental child care on cognitive development in early childhood. Investment in the development of children at early rather than later ages provides higher returns in terms of labor market outcomes. Thus, decision making process of primary care givers are extremely important at this period. A nationally representative longitudinal data for the United States of America is used in this paper. Hybrid production function for the cognitive development is estimated within a dynamic framework using a two-step system Generalized Method of Moments estimator. The results show that more hours of center-based care significantly increase cognitive achievement and this holds true when center-based care is defined as full-or part-time. Furthermore, both a high quality home environment and a high quality out-of-home child care improve a child's cognitive development while there is no statistically significant impact of maternal work hours.

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The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation 'Dip'

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 002 for Girls

Mother’s Employment, Child Care Use and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

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