abstract: '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.'
affiliation: 'Schneebaum, A (Corresponding Author), Vienna Univ Econ \& Business,
  Dept Econ, Welthandelspl 1, A-1020 Vienna, Austria.

  Fessler, Pirmin, Oesterreich Nationalbank, Foreign Res Div, Vienna, Austria.

  Schneebaum, Alyssa, Vienna Univ Econ \& Business, Dept Econ, Welthandelspl 1, A-1020
  Vienna, Austria.'
author: Fessler, Pirmin and Schneebaum, Alyssa
author-email: alyssa.schneebaum@wu.ac.at
author_list:
- family: Fessler
  given: Pirmin
- family: Schneebaum
  given: Alyssa
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1584368
eissn: 1466-4283
files: []
issn: 0003-6846
journal: APPLIED ECONOMICS
keywords: 'Returns to preschool; kindergarten; early childhood education;

  education; inequality'
keywords-plus: CHILD-CARE; YOUNG-CHILDREN; LONG; GENDER; OUTCOMES; MOTHERS
language: English
month: JUL 9
number: '32'
number-of-cited-references: '46'
pages: 3531-3550
papis_id: 9184e31efb30734cdfe2233bf4aa6183
ref: Fessler2019educationallabor
times-cited: '3'
title: The educational and labor market returns to preschool attendance in Austria
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000465017800006
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '17'
volume: '51'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2019'