Cognitive and non-cognitive costs of daycare 0-2 for girls
Abstract:
Exploiting admission thresholds to the highly-rep uted daycare system of Bologna, Italy, we show in a RDD that one additional month in daycare at age 0-2 reduces IQ by 0.5% (4.5% of a s.d.) at age 8-1 4 in a relatively affluent population. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis, suggested in psychology, that children in daycare experience fe wer one-to-one interactions with adults, with negative effects in families where such interactions are of particularly high quality. We show in a mode l that when parents are offered the most preferred daycare program (as oppo sed to a less preferred one), daycare attendance increases and parents work more or reduce costly market care. At a high earning potential, this incre ase in family resources is attractive even if it comes at the cost of child IQ. The model lends structure to our RDD, and it is simulated to show that our estimate would be positive in a less advantaged population.
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