TY - UNPB

T1 - Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care

AU - Datta Gupta, Nabanita

AU - Simonsen, Marianne

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children, enrolled in either center based day care or family day care at age 2. Exploiting variation across municipalities in guaranteed access to center based care as an instrument for type of care our results show that center based day care improves grades in Danish language in the final year of compulsory school with around 0.2 standard deviations.

AB - This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children, enrolled in either center based day care or family day care at age 2. Exploiting variation across municipalities in guaranteed access to center based care as an instrument for type of care our results show that center based day care improves grades in Danish language in the final year of compulsory school with around 0.2 standard deviations.

KW - Center based care

KW - Family day care

M3 - Working paper

T3 - IZA Discussion Paper

BT - Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care

ER -