No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
研究了挪威大规模补贴儿童保育对儿童长期结果的影响，发现其显著提高了教育程度和劳动参与率，并减少了福利依赖，尤其对女性和母亲教育水平低的儿童效果更明显。
Many developed countries are currently considering a move toward subsidized, widely accessible child care or preschool. However, studies on how large-scale provision of child care affects child development are scarce, and focused on short-run outcomes. We analyze a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care in Norway, addressing the impact on children's long-run outcomes. Our precise and robust difference-in-differences estimates show that subsidized child care had strong positive effects on children's educational attainment and labor market participation, and also reduced welfare dependency. Subsample analyses indicate that girls and children with low-educated mothers benefit the most from child care.