Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106201 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1438
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In recent years, almost all children below school age in Western industrialized countries have some experience of attending day care institutions. However, the age at which children enter day care and therefore the overall time spent in day carevaries substantially. We investigate the potential impact of later day care entry on the social and emotional behaviour of children, one important aspect of non-cognitive skills. Based on the English sample of the Millennium Cohort Study, we analyse the effects on children's development at the age of five and seven, using propensity score techniques. We find clear evidence of effects on children's development at the age of seven: Later day care entry increases children's peer-problems and reduces prosocial behaviour. We find that boys with low educated mothers and from families with a household income below the poverty line are most strongly affected.
Subjects: 
day care entrance
early start
socio-emotional behaviour
propensity score matching
JEL: 
J13
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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