The provision of subsidized child care has grown to become a sizeable economic activity in Sweden during recent decades. This paper examines the changed financial relation between central and local governments and the impact of child-care grants on local government behaviour. We find that during...

Efficiency differences among day care centers and productivity change over time are examined on the basis of nonparametric frontiers calculated using the data envelopment analysis methodology. The data consist of approximately 200 public day care centers in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the years 1988...