TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Giorgetti, Isabella
AU  - Picchio, Matteo
        TI  - One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy
        PY  - 2018/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11689
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11689
        AB  - In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public supply of early childhood educational services. We find that the ratio between the available slots in public early childhood education and the population of those aged 0-2 increased by 18.1% three years after the start of the program, with respect to the pre-program level. The program impact was however nil in the South and totally driven by the Center-North.
        KW  - early childcare services
KW  - public early childhood education
KW  - government transfers
KW  - difference-in-differences
        ER  -