Preschool attendance is widely recognized as a key ingredient for later socioeconomic success,
mothers' labor market participation, and leveling the playing field for children from disadvantaged
backgrounds. However, the empirical evidence for these claims is still relatively scarce,
particularly in Europe. Using data from the 2011 Austrian European Union Statistics of Income
and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), we contribute to this literature by studying the effects of having
attended preschool for the adult Austrian population. We find strong and positive effects of
preschool attendance on later educational attainment, the probability of working full time, hourly
wages, and the probability that the mother is in the labor market. Full time workers at the bottom
and the top of the distribution benefit less than those in the middle. Women in particular benefit
more in terms of years of schooling and the probability of working full time. Other disadvantaged
groups (second generation migrants; people with less educated parents) also often benefit more
in terms of education and work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:6855 |
| Date | 02 1900 |
| Creators | Fessler, Pirmin, Schneebaum, Alyssa |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2019.1584368, https://www.tandfonline.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/6855/ |
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