• Child care center staff composition and early child development 

      Drange, Nina; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;No. 870, Working paper, 2017-12-13)
      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 ...
    • Child care, parental labor supply and tax revenue 

      Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Havnes, Tarjei (Discussion Papers;No. 881, Working paper, 2018-08-13)
      For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor supply of mothers. Results ...
    • Universal child care and inequality of opportunity Descriptive findings from Norway 

      Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil (Rapporter;No. 880, Working paper, 2018-07-25)
      Encouraging effects from random assignments of intensive and high-quality early child care to disadvantaged children have spurred hopes that publicly funded universal child care can improve human development and social ...
    • Workload, staff composition, and sickness absence. Findings from employees in child care centers 

      Gunnes, Trude; Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 882, Working paper, 2018-08-17)
      We proxy workload by the number of adults per child in Norwegian child care centers, but do not find that centers with many adults per child have lower sickness absence than other centers. However, we do find that more ...