Given the wide use of childcare 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 childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …

In this paper we explore the relationship between parents’ inputs, childcare inputs and child cognitive outcomes using … offset by the use of childcare. The positive effects of childcare are stronger for children from lower income and education …