The Impact of Providing Free Access to Child Care on Household and Child Outcomes

Last registered on August 13, 2019

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
The Impact of Providing Free Access to Child Care on Household and Child Outcomes
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004536
Initial registration date
August 12, 2019

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
August 13, 2019, 5:13 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
University College London

Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2007-12-01
End date
2021-12-31
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We study the medium term impacts of free access to day care on home resources, home environments, and child development. Applicants to public day care in Rio de Janeiro in 2008 were allocated to slots in public day care centers through a lottery. The lottery was binding when there was excess demand for slots in a particular age group - day care center combination. Data is collected in 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2017 on the labor supply and income of different household members, household expenditures, home environments, children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, children's anthropometrics, and children's preferences.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Carneiro, Pedro. 2019. "The Impact of Providing Free Access to Child Care on Household and Child Outcomes." AEA RCT Registry. August 13. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4536-1.0
Former Citation
Carneiro, Pedro. 2019. "The Impact of Providing Free Access to Child Care on Household and Child Outcomes." AEA RCT Registry. August 13. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4536/history/51680
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
The program provides free full day day care to children ages 0-3 who have gained access to a day care slot through the lottery.
Intervention Start Date
2007-12-01
Intervention End Date
2011-12-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Employment outcomes of household members, home resources, home environments, child health, child anthropometrics, child developments, child school outcomes, child preferences, maternal depression
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Families interested in benefiting from free day care register their children in the appropriate age group in the day care center they are interested in. If the demand of day care slots in each particular age group - day care combination exceeds the supply, the slots are allocated using a lottery.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
randomization done in computer
Randomization Unit
Child
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
approximately 10000 children
Sample size: planned number of observations
approximately 4000 children in the household surveys, approximately 10000 children in the administrative data
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
approximately 4000 children in the household surveys, approximately 10000 children in the administrative data
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Secretaria Municipal de Educacao do Rio de Janeiro
IRB Approval Date
2011-10-01
IRB Approval Number
N/A

Post-Trial

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

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