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 …

The majority of children in the US and many other high-income nations are now cared for
many hours per week by people who are neither their parents nor their school teachers. The …

I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged
zero to two exceeds the corresponding child-care enrollment rate, while the opposite is true …

The provision of public assistance to families with children in America faced a watershed
moment with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity …

This study evaluates the short-run impact of an increase in childcare subsidies on the use of
paid childcare and the participation rate of mothers of preschool children. We use a natural …

This paper analyzes the US Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily subsidized and universal child
care program administered during World War II. I first estimate its impact on maternal …

Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in
many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's …

Purpose–After many years of equal opportunities legislation, motherhood still limits womens'
career progress even in a feminized occupation such as nursing. While the effect of …

Responding adequately to parental priorities for child care is important for shaping children's
early experiences and development, and for facilitating parenting at the nexus of work and …