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DESCRIPTION:Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.\n\n\n'Early C
 hildhood Care and Cognitive Development'\n\nMatt Wiswall (Wisconsin)\n	(wit
 h Juan Chaparro and Aaron Sojourner) \n	\n	October 28\, 2022\, 3:30 to 5:00 
 PM\n	Leacock 429\n\nHost: Fernando Saltiel\n	Field: Labour\n\nAbstract:\n	Thi
 s paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood develo
 pment in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood p
 olicy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households 
 decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and nonmaternal care 
 along with maternal labor supply. The model introduces a novel parenting-e
 ffort channel\, whereby child care subsidies that permit less parenting ma
 y enable better parenting. To estimate the model\, we combine observationa
 l data with experimental data from the Infant Health and Development Progr
 am (IHDP) which randomly assigned free child care when the child was 1 and
  2 years old. We estimate a cognitive skill production function and househ
 old preferences\, giving insight into mechanisms driving the ex post heter
 ogeneous effects of the IHDP intervention\, accounting for alternative car
 e substitutes available to the control group and spillovers of the child c
 are offer across the household's decisions. We also estimate ex ante effec
 ts of counterfactual policies such as an offer of lower-quality care\, req
 uiring a co-pay for subsidized care\, raising the maternal wage offer\, or
  a cash transfer. Finally\, we use the model to rationalize existing evide
 nce from outside the US on the effects of universal child care programs.\n
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LOCATION:Room 429\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Matt Wiswall (Wisconsin)\, 'Early Childhood Care and Cog
 nitive Development'
URL:/economics/channels/event/cancelled-matt-wiswall-w
 isconsin-early-childhood-care-and-cognitive-development-340412
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