dc.contributor.author | Drange, Nina | |
dc.contributor.author | Havnes, Tarjei | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Norway | nb_NO |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-07T10:14:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-07T10:14:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-05 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2607420 | |
dc.description.abstract | Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development. We use child care assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of child care starting age on early cognitive achievement in Oslo, Norway. Getting a lottery offer lowers starting age by about four months, from a mean of about 19 months in the control group. Lottery estimates show significant score gains for children at age seven. Survey evidence and an increase in employment of both mothers and fathers following the offer, suggest that parental care is the most relevant alternative mode of care. We document that the assignment lottery generates balance in observable characteristics, supporting our empirical approach. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistisk sentralbyrå | nb_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion papers;808 | |
dc.subject | Early child care | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Child development | nb_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: J13 | nb_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: J21 | nb_NO |
dc.title | Child care before age two and the development of language and numeracy: Evidence from a lottery | nb_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 37 s. | nb_NO |
dc.relation.project | Thanks to Oslo Municipality for generously providing data, institutional detail and feedback on the project, in particular to Eli Aspelund, Thomas Bang and Ragnhild Walberg at HEV. The project received financial support from the Norwegian Research Council (Grant Number 212305 and Grant Number 236947). The project is also part of the research activities at the ESOP center at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. ESOP is supported by The Research Council of Norway (grant no. 179552) | nb_NO |