TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sandner, Malte
A1  - Thomsen, Stephan L.
A1  - González, Libertad
T1  - Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare
T2  - The Economic Journal
N2  - We investigate the impact of public childcare provision on the incidence of severe child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a reform that expanded early childcare in Germany, generating large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county level. Using high-quality administrative data covering all reported cases of child maltreatment in Germany by county and year, we find that an increase in childcare slots by one percentage point in a county reduced child maltreatment cases leading to out-of-home placement by about 1%. Our results suggest that the provision of universal public childcare may be more cost effective than previously thought.
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ohm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2432
SN  - 0013-0133
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
ER  -