Child care center staff composition and early child development
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We estimate effects of child care center staff composition on early child development. During the
years our data covers, child care centers in Oslo were oversubscribed, and child care slots were
allocated through a lottery. This allow us to explore how staff education, experience and stability, as
well as proportion of male and immigrant staff, affect the cognitive development of children whose
parents initially applied for the same center(s), but where children got offers from different
institutions. We find that children who get their first offer of child care enrollment in a child care center
with a higher share of male staff, perform better on tests in language and mathematics in the early
years of schoo