One billion euro program for early childcare services in Italy

Isabella Giorgetti and Matteo Picchio

No 459, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public supply of early childhood educational services. We find that the ratio between the available slots in public early childhood education and the population of those aged 0-2 increased by 17.2% three years after the start of the program, with respect to the pre-program level. The program impact was however limited in the South and mostly driven by the Center-North.

Keywords: Early childcare services; public early childhood education; government transfers; difference-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 H52 H70 I28 J13 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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