Does Quebec's Subsidized Child Care Policy Give Boys and Girls an Equal Start?

We would like to thank anonymous reviewers, Habiba Djebbai, Jessica Pan, Aloysius Siow, Eugenia Toma and seminar participants at the University of Toronto, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011 CLSRN-SOLE meeting, 2010 CEA annual meeting, John Deutsch Institute's Conference on Economic Relations Between Children and Parents, 2012 RES annual meetings, 2011 IEB Workshop on Economics of Education 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. This paper previously circulated under the title "The Gender Effects of Universal Child Care in Canada: Much ado about Boys?". 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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