CARE OR CASH? THE EFFECT OF CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE
CARE OR CASH? THE EFFECT OF CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE
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DOI：
10.1162/rest_a_00439
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Salvanes, Kjell G.
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作者：
Black, Sandra E.;Devereux, Paul J.;Salvanes, Kjell G.
鉴于各国广泛使用儿童保育补贴，令人惊讶的是我们对这些补贴对儿童长期结果的影响知之甚少。利用挪威儿童保育价格的急剧不连续性，我们能够分离出儿童保育补贴对家长和学生成果的影响。我们发现，儿童保育补贴对儿童保育利用率和父母劳动力参与度的影响非常小，在统计上不显着。尽管如此，我们发现补贴对儿童初中学业成绩有显着的积极影响，这表明补贴对可支配收入的积极冲击可能有助于提高儿童的学业能力。
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.