Tuesday, 22 May 2018

The levelling effects of good quality early childcare

a column by Christina Felfe and Rafael Lalive for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

In many societies and for many families, the responsibility for looking after very young children during the day has passed from parents to third-party care providers, prompting a hotly contested debate about the merits of early childcare and how it affects childhood development. This column exploits an expansion of childcare provision in Germany to show that early childcare can be a major contributor to eliminating inequality of opportunity and even lay the foundations for a more productive workforce in the future.

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