Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare

  • 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.

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Author:Malte SandnerORCiD, Stephan L. Thomsen, Libertad González
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae070
ISSN:0013-0133
Parent Title (English):The Economic Journal
Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2024/07/19
Reviewed:Begutachtet/Reviewed
Release Date:2024/11/13
institutes:Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft
Research Themes:Soziale & ökonomische Transformation
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