eprintid: 10166215
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creators_name: Kawarazaki, Hikaru
title: Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F24
keywords: Social Sciences, Demography, Economics, Business & Economics, Early childhood education and care, Inequality, Preschool, Mediation analysis, Return to education, MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT, PERSONALITY-TRAITS, YOUNG-CHILDREN, LIFE-CYCLE, AVAILABILITY, PRESCHOOL, POLICIES, MOTHERS, INTERVENTIONS, MEDIATION
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abstract: The effects of early childhood education and care (ECEC) have been widely researched, but most studies focus on targeted or relatively short-term programmes. This paper investigates the long-term effects of a universal ECEC programme and underlying mechanisms. By exploiting differences in expansion rates of childcare institutions across Japan from the 1960s to the 1980s, I find a positive effect of ECEC on income at up to age 50. The overall effect is driven by a significant impact among women, who were disadvantaged at that time, while there are no adverse effects on others. Mediation analysis shows that an increase in wages leads to an increase in income, which is triggered by improved educational attainment and not an increase in labour supply. The results imply that a universal childcare system has the potential to reduce income inequality.
date: 2022-06-09
date_type: published
publisher: SPRINGER
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00899-w
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2009541
doi: 10.1007/s00148-022-00899-w
lyricists_name: Kawarazaki, Hikaru
lyricists_id: HKAWA54
actors_name: Bracey, Alan
actors_id: ABBRA90
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: 20J14435 [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)]; 20J14435 [Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research]
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Population Economics
pages: 73
citation:        Kawarazaki, Hikaru;      (2022)    Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms.                   Journal of Population Economics        10.1007/s00148-022-00899-w <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00899-w>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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