After-School Center-based Care and Children's Development

Christina Felfe and Larissa Zierow ()

No 1338, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: What is the impact of after-school center-based care on the development of primary schoolaged children? Answering this question is challenging due to non-random selection of children into after-school center-based care. We tackle this challenge by using detailed data of the German Child Panel and employing a value added method. While we do not find significant effects on average, our analysis provides evidence for beneficial returns to afterschool center-based care attendance for more disadvantaged children. To be more precise, children of less-educated mothers and low-income families benefit from attending after-school care centers in terms of their socio-behavioral development.

Keywords: Child care; child development; value added estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2013-11
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