Early Childcare Attendance and Cognitive skills in Adolescence

Nina Drange was supported by ERC CoG Grant agreement No. 818425. Henrik Daae Zachrisson was supported by ERC CoG Grant agreements No. 818425 and 101045526, and The Research Council of Norway’s Center for Research Excellence grant No. 331640. Costas Meghir thanks the Cowles foundation and the Institution for Social Policy Studies at Yale for financial support. The Norwegian registry data was used via the project SUBPU, which is approved by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (ref. 2017/2205). The University of Oslo is responsible for the data handling in SUBPU and has conducted a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt; ref. 962088). The data access and management of SUBPU is financed by the Research Council of Norway, the European Research Council, and the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. This work was performed on the TSD (Tjenester for Sensitive Data) facilities, owned by the University of Oslo, operated and developed by the TSD service group at the University of Oslo, IT-Department (USIT). The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.