Does early child care affect children's development?☆
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We would like to thank Olof Aslund, Michael Baker, Mark Dusheiko, Martin Eckhoff Andresen, Maria Fitzpatrick, Eric French, Martin Huber, Steven Lehrer, Edwin Leuven, Michael Kosfeld, Patrick Kline, Claudia Senik, Marianne Simonsen, Mark Stabile, Sergio Urzua, Chris White, Ludger Wössmann, Danny Yagan, the editor and three anonymous referees for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. We presented the paper to seminar audiences at Ifo Institute Munich, UC Berkeley, University of Lausanne, University of Mannheim, University of Toronto, CIREQ Montreal, and Barcelona Summer Forum. We are indebted to the MSGWG (Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Science and Equality) of Schleswig Holstein/Germany, which granted us access and further information on their annual reports on the school entry examinations. In particular, we would like to thank our cooperation partners, Heidrun Thaiss, Ute Thyen and Sabine Brehm, for their support and thoughtful input. This publication benefited from the support of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES –Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR LIVES), which is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number: 51NF40-160590). The authors are grateful to the Swiss National ScienceFoundation for its financial assistance. Christina Felfe acknowledges financial support from the Economic Policy Profile Area of the University of St. Gallen. Rafael Lalive thanks the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Economics for its hospitality while rewriting substantial parts of this paper. All remaining errors are our own.