Child Care Subsidies and Child Development Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications ...

In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs), measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys and evaluations of interventions is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as alternatives. However, their validity in these circumstances is unknown. We examined the feasibility, reliability...

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend less likely to be breastfed, owing poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals weekends. use this variation estimate effect of on children's development first seven years life, for a sample births low-educated mothers. find large effects cognitive but no health noncognitive during period childhood we consider. Regarding mec...