Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34407 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3009
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare provision in the municipalities participating in the experiment. In a market that was providing high-quality, low-cost public daycare, a voucher is nevertheless found to have a significant, positive effect for the use of private daycare with zero to negligible effects on the use of public care and labor force participation.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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