Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
利用挪威儿童保育价格的不连续变化，研究发现补贴对儿童保育使用和父母劳动参与影响很小，但显著提高了初中生的学业成绩，可能源于可支配收入增加。
Given the wide use of child care subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer-run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of child care in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of child care subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and statistically insignificant effects of child care subsidies on child care utilization and parental labor force participation. Despite this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school, suggesting that the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic aptitude.