Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110772 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9045
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children, enrolled in either center based day care or family day care at age 2. Exploiting variation across municipalities in guaranteed access to center based care as an instrument for type of care our results show that center based day care improves grades in Danish language in the final year of compulsory school with around 0.2 standard deviations.
Subjects: 
center based care
family day care
JEL: 
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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