Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192852 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 870
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We estimate effects of child care center staff composition on early child development. During the years our data covers, child care centers in Oslo were oversubscribed, and child care slots were allocated through a lottery. This allow us to explore how staff education, experience and stability, as well as proportion of male and immigrant staff, affect the cognitive development of children whose parents initially applied for the same center(s), but where children got offers from different institutions. We find that children who get their first offer of child care enrollment in a child care center with a higher share of male staff, perform better on tests in language and mathematics in the early years of school.
Subjects: 
Child care quality
child development
JEL: 
I21
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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