New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada

Michael J. Kottelenberg, Steven F. Lehrer

NBER Working Paper No. 18785
Issued in February 2013

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We would like to thank Habiba Djebbari and seminar participants at the University of Toronto, 2010 CEA Annual meetings, John Deutsch Institute's conference on Economic Relations Between Children and Parents, 2012 RES annual meetings, and the CEPS/INSTEAD's conference on the Theory and Practice of Program Evaluation for helpful comments and suggestions. We would like to thank Kevin Milligan for generously answering a number of questions regarding earlier analysis of the data used in the study. This paper is a revised version of a portion of Kottelenberg's Queen's University 2009 Master's research paper. Lehrer wishes to thank SSHRC for research support. We are responsible for all errors. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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