Department of Economics and Business - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Title:: Preventing child maltreatment: Beneficial side effects of public childcare provision
Authors:: Malte Sandner, Stephan L. Thomsen and Libertad González Luna
Date:: October 2020
Abstract:: We investigate the impact of public childcare provision on the incidence of child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a government reform that expanded early childcare in Germany, generating large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county level. Using high-quality administrative data covering all reported cases of child maltreatment in Germany by county and year, our results show that an increase in childcare slots by one percentage point in a county led to a decline of 1.8% in child maltreatment cases. Our findings suggest that the provision of universal public childcare may be more cost-effective that previously thought.
Keywords:: child maltreatment, child abuse and neglect, early childcare
JEL codes:: J13, J12, I38
Area of Research:: Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics

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