The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program
研究发现加拿大魁北克省普及儿童保育政策对儿童非认知技能产生负面冲击，且该影响持续至学龄期，并导致成年后健康更差、生活满意度更低、犯罪率更高。
Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a sizeable negative shock to noncognitive outcomes arising with the introduction of universal child care in Quebec. We find that the negative effects on noncognitive outcomes persisted to school ages, and also that cohorts with increased child care access had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. Our results reinforce previous evidence of the central role of the early childhood environment for long-run success.