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Impact of Early Childcare on Immigrant Children’s Educational Performance

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  • Luca Corazzini

    () (Department of Economics, University Of Venice Cà Foscari)

  • Elena Meschi

    () (Department of Economics, Management and Statistics DEMS, University of Milano-Bicocca)

  • Caterina Pavese

    () (Department of Economics, University Of Venice Cà Foscari)

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children’s cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational System (INVALSI) for school years 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 matched to unique administrative records on the early childcare public available slots at the municipal level. Our identification strategy exploits cross-sectional and time series variation in the provision of early childcare service across Italian municipalities as an instrument for individual early childcare attendance. Our results point out that the effect of early childcare attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated parents, which suggests that early childcare may be particularly relevant for immigrant children from a disadvantaged background.

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  • Luca Corazzini & Elena Meschi & Caterina Pavese, 2019. "Impact of Early Childcare on Immigrant Children’s Educational Performance," Working Papers 2019: 24, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
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    Keywords

    Childcare; Cognitive skills; Immigrant children; IV;

    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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