A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

We thank audiences at the NBER Summer Institute Children and Families program, Columbia (University) Committee on the Economics of Education Seminar, Tulane University, University of Nebraska, Michigan State University’s Education Policy Seminar, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Urban Institute, CESifo Labor Area Conference, Economic Demography Workshop, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference, and Maryland Population Research Center Time Use Conference. We are grateful to Andrew Barr, Jeff Denning, and Chris Karbownik for helpful feedback, and to Martha Bailey, Maria Fitzpatrick, Alex Hollingsworth, and Heather Royer for insightful comments on earlier versions of this work. Gibbs acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation, and for previous iterations of this project, the U.S. Department of Labor Scholars Program and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research’s Early Career Research Award. 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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