%0 Report
        %A Viitanen, Tarja
        %T Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3009
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3009
        %X This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare provision in the municipalities participating in the experiment. In a market that was providing high-quality, low-cost public daycare, a voucher is nevertheless found to have a significant, positive effect for the use of private daycare with zero to negligible effects on the use of public care and labor force participation.
        %K social experimentation
%K vouchers
%K daycare use
%K labor force participation