Why not target childcare at those who will benefit? It’s harmful to the middle and upper classes, more so for boys but helpful for those with low human capital.

Why not target childcare at those who will benefit? It’s harmful to the middle and upper classes, more so for boys but helpful for those with low human capital. If we’re trying to do the best we can for children most of the population should not be sending their children to outside the home care until school age. > Jim Heckman, who is a Nobel prize winner in economics, has talked about how early childhood education and care can both promote equity and efficiency but he is focusing this message on targeting the disadvantaged, not for everyone. > In fact, in the paper that Mike Kottelenberg and I just had published last year in the Journal of Labour Economics, we actually can explain this heterogeneity because we are finding there are large gains to universal child care for kids in the lower part of the distribution from single parent households, but for most kids in the middle of the distribution from two-parent families, we are getting these negative declines. It’s not that universal childcare is effective or not effective, it’s effective for some, but not for others. https://www.convivium.ca/articles/daycare-demands-diversity/ https://www.convivium.ca/articles/daycare-demands-diversity/