Many American parents, politicians, and nonprofits are agitating for universal child care. But a policy experiment north of the border suggests that opening daycare doors to everyone may do more harm than good. Six years after the Quebec provincial government began offering universal $5-a-day child care, families were faring worse than before, find University of Toronto economist Michael Baker and his colleagues in a recent evaluation. The researchers’ findings defy collective wisdom,…
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