Preschoolers enrolled and mothers at work? The effects of universal prekindergarten

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-85

  Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749322505     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648666     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. 2007. Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California's tobacco control program. Technical Working Paper 0335, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
2. Baker, Michael, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan. 2008. Universal child care, maternal labor supply, and family well-being. Journal of Political Economy 116 (August): 709-745
3. Blau, David M., and Erdal Tekin. 2007. The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers. Journal of Population Economics 20:719-741
4. Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2007. Changes in the labor supply behavior of married women: 1980-2000. Journal of Labor Economics 25:393-438.
5. Bos, Johannes M., Althea C. Huston, Robert C. Granger, Greg J. Duncan, Thomas W. Brock, and Vonnie C. McCloyd. 1999. New hope for people with low incomes: Two-year results of a program to reduce poverty and reform welfare. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp.
6. Bound, John, and David A. Jaeger. 2000. Do compulsory school attendance laws alone explain the association between quarter of birth and earnings? In Research in labor economics, vol.19, ed. Solomon Polachek. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
7. Bound, John, David Jaeger, and Regina Baker. 1995. Problems with instrumental variables estimation when the correlation between the instruments and the endogenous explanatory variable is weak. Journal of the American Statistical Association 90:443-450
8. Brackett, Margret H. H., Gary T. Henry, and Jeanie Weathersby. 1999. Report on the expenditure of lottery funds fiscal year 1999. The Council for School Performance, Georgia. Accessed at http://www.aysps.gsu.edu/publications/ arc/csp/Download/lottery99.pdf.
9. Cascio, Elizabeth. 2009a. Do large investments in early education pay off? Long-term effects of introducing kindergartens into American public schools. Working Paper 14951, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
10. -. 2009b. Public preschool and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of kindergartens in American public schools. Journal of Human Resources 44:140-170
11. Cutler, David M., and Jonathan Gruber. 1996. Does public insurance crowd out private insurance? Quarterly Journal of Economics 111: 391-460.
12. Dynarski, Susan. 2000. Hope for whom? Financial aid for the middle class and its impact on college attendance. National Tax Journal 53 (September): 629-661
13. -. 2008. Building the stock of college-educated labor. Journal of Human Resources 43:576-610.
14. Fitzpatrick, Maria D. 2008. Starting school at four: The effect of universal pre-kindergarten on children's academic achievement. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 8, no.1 ("Advances"), article 46.
15. -. 2009. Revising our thinking about the relationship between public preschool and maternal labor supply. Unpublished manuscript, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University.
16. Gelbach, Jonah B. 2002. Public schooling for young children and maternal labor supply. American Economic Review 92:307-322
17. Glod, Maria. 2005. Hurdle ahead for Virginia pre-K plan. Washington Post, December 11.
18. Gormley, William T., Jr., and Ted Gayer. 2005. Promoting school readiness in Oklahoma: An evaluation of Tulsa's PK program. Journal of Human Resources 40:533-554
19. Granger, Robert C., and Rachel Cryton. 1999. Teenage parent programs: A synthesis of the long term effects of the new chance demonstration, Ohio's learning, earning and parenting program, and the teenage parent demonstration. Evaluation Review 23:107-145
20. Hahn, Jinyong, Petra Todd, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. 2001. Identification and estimation of treatment effects with a regression discontinuity design. Econometrica 69:201-209
21. Hakim, Danny. 2007. Changeover in Albany: Spitzer requests sweeping array of new measures. New York Times, January 4.
22. Heim, Brad. 2007. The incredible shrinking elasticities: Married female labor supply, 1978-2002. Journal of Human Resources 42:881-918.
23. Heckman, James J., and Dimitriy Masterov. 2004. The productivity argument for investing in young children. Working Paper no. 5, Invest in Kids Working Group, Washington, DC.
24. Lee, David S., and David Card. 2008. Regression discontinuity inference with specification error. Journal of Econometrics 142:655-674
25. Lefebvre, Pierre, and Philip Merrigan. 2005. Low-fee ($5/day/ child) regulated childcare policy and the labor supply of mothers with young children: A natural experiment from Canada. CIRPEE Working Paper 05-08. Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques economiques et l'emploi, Montreal.
26. Long, Bridget. 2004. The institutional impact of financial aid policy: The case of the Georgia Hope scholarship. Journal ofHuman Resources 39: 1045-1066
27. McCrary, Justin. 2008. Manipulation of the running variable in the regression discontinuity design: A density test. Journal of Econometrics 142:698-714.
28. McCrary, Justin, and Heather Royer. 2005. The effect of maternal education on fertility and infant health: Evidence from school entry policies using exact day of birth. Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
29. Schlosser, Analla. 2005. Public preschool and the labor supply of Arab mothers: Evidence from a natural experiment. Unpublished manuscript, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.