TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Viitanen, Tarja
        TI  - Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation
        PY  - 2007/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3009
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3009
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social experimentation
KW  - vouchers
KW  - daycare use
KW  - labor force participation
        ER  -