Data and Codes for: Childcare Subsidies and Child Skill Accumulation in One- and Two-Parent Families

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Emily G. Moschini, College of William & Mary

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
Code Set 1			02/23/2022 07:25:PM
Code Set 2			12/17/2021 03:06:PM
US Census 2000			02/23/2022 10:59:AM
ReadMe.pdf	application/pdf	97.4 KB	10/07/2022 04:55:AM

Project Citation:

Moschini, Emily G. Data and Codes for: Childcare Subsidies and Child Skill Accumulation in One- and Two-Parent Families. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-12-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E156282V1

Project Description

Summary: These files replicate the results from "Childcare Subsidies and Child Skill Accumulation in One- and Two-Parent Families". Abstract: I examine the role of family structure and childcare subsidies in child skill accumulation. I establish empirically that skill accumulation is more responsive to childcare price for one-parent families than for two-parent families. I analyze the effects of childcare subsidies in a model featuring endogenous family formation, parental altruism, and a baseline subsidy resembling that of the United States. I find that eliminating this subsidy generates welfare losses of 1.63 percent of lifetime consumption, that equilibrium adjustments act to mitigate these losses, and that increasing uptake among one-parent families yields the highest welfare gains per additional recipient.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: early childhood education; family structure

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I26 Returns to Education
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2000 – 2016

Data Type(s): aggregate data; program source code

Methodology

Data Source: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, 2002 Fiscal Year
American Time Use Survey, multi-year file 2003-2016
Current Population Survey 2000 and 2001
2000 United States Census via Social Explorer
Panel Study of Income Dynamics 2002

Unit(s) of Observation: Household, Family

Geographic Unit: State and national

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V1 [2022-12-09]

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