Family-centered measures of access to early care and education

Davis, Elizabeth E.; Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.001

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“…van Ham and Mulder (2005) found that spatial access to childcare affects maternal employment; mothers are more likely to work when there is a higher per capita number of childcare seats within a 10-min driving radius. In the most sophisticated GIS-based study to date, Davis et al (2019) calculated adjusted supply, driving time, cost, and quality of ECE services within a 20-min drive from the estimated location of children's homes. They found driving times to be shorter, and both price and quality to be higher in the urban capital compared to the rest of their state.…”

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“…Specifically, we developed a spatially-based measure of ECE affordability that combines information about the number of ECE seats located within a reasonable distance to the family's home, competition for these seats, and the cost burden to parents to purchase these ECE services. By incorporating information about individual family residences, this "family-centered" approach (Davis et al 2019;Friese et al 2017) reflects the everyday, practical reality of family life. Because the measure is spatially-based, it can be mapped to show how neighborhoods vary on a continuum from low to high accessibility.…”

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“…The two-stage floating catchment area (2SFCA) method is a solution to the limitations of static area boundaries. The 2SFCA approach has been used to measure access to resources such as health care providers (Guagliardo 2004;Luo and Wang 2003) and green space (Li et al 2016): These methods have only recently been applied to the study of ECE access (Davis et al 2019;Kawabata 2015;Lin and Madill 2019). As applied to the example of ECE access, the first step of the 2SFCA approach is to calculate for each ECE provider the ratio of seats offered to the number of children living within a set distance i.e., catchment area, of that provider.…”

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Mapping Access to Affordable Early Childhood Education and Care: Methodology and Application to Community Advocacy

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DeBaryshe

Gauci

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Int. Journal of Com. WB

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Accessible and affordable early childhood care and education (ECE) is crucial to child, family, and community well-being. High quality ECE programs set the stage for lifelong learning, health, and overall well-being and yield a high rate of return on public investment. Equitable access to ECE remains an intractable challenge in the U.S. and elsewhere. We used spatial analysis to create a single micro-level indicator of ECE affordability for an urban county. This indicator combined information on supply (number of nearby sets), demand (number of children competing for these seats), and cost burden (cost as a percentage of median family income). We measured and mapped the affordability of programs within a 3-mile driving distance of a prototypical family home using a two-step floating catchment area method. Overall, affordability was low, with only 14% of young children having access to ECE that met the federal affordability threshold. Although affordability was inversely related to neighborhood income, not all low-income areas were under-resourced. The ECE affordability indicator can arm community advocates and help policymakers identify inequities and direct resources to the highest-need communities. The computational procedures and mapping techniques applied are flexible and can be scaled up to visualize inequities across large areas (e.g., a province or state), or used at a micro level to identify where in a community a new childcare center would have the most impact.

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Mapping Access to Affordable Early Childhood Education and Care: Methodology and Application to Community Advocacy

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“…Unfortunately, even prior to the pandemic, families faced a dearth of affordable, high-quality options, with disproportionate impacts on black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), as well as other historically marginalized populations [7]. Due to structural racism and systemic discrimination, childcare deserts, or areas with low supply or shortages of childcare [8], are disproportionately located in BIPOC, rural, tribal, and low-income communities [7]. In 2016, only 57% of surveyed parents of young children reported having good childcare choices where they live [9].…”

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Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on food security in early childhood

2022

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

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Purpose of reviewTo summarize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity during early childhood, with a focus on challenges and strategies to improve access to and consumption of nutritious food in early childcare and education settings.Recent findingsThe COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing gaps and inequities in the early childcare and education system, resulting in closures and decreased access to healthy foods that disproportionately impacted black, indigenous, and people of color, as well as rural and low-income communities.SummaryClosures and changes in operational capacity not only stressed the early childcare and education system and its workforce but also contributed to financial strain and food insecurity among families with young children. Increased public investment and cross-sector partnerships can support and strengthen both early childcare and education and food systems, increasing equitable access to quality care and reducing food insecurity in early childhood.

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“…Lower-income communities are more likely than others to face particularly high hurdles in providing an adequate supply of ECE programs. Many low-income families cannot afford to pay market-rate fees for ECE, and lowincome communities may not have substantial public or philanthropic revenue streams, creating lower supply in poor places (Council of Economic Advisors 2014; Malik et al 2018;Davis, Lee, and Sojourner 2019;Chaudry et al 2021). Additionally, consistent with evidence that greater spatial access to social service programs is associated with higher rates of participation among low-income households (Allard, Tolman, and Rosen 2003;Herbst and Tekin 2016), we should expect that a greater local supply of ECE programs and resources will correspond to higher rates of participation.…”

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Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness

Morrissey

Allard

Pelletier

2022

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and local government spending on childcare, preschool, and other ECE programs-many designed to serve children in low-income families-has increased in the last several decades (Diffey, Parker, and Atchison 2017; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2018; DOE 2020). Funding for public subsidies that help families purchase Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children's School Readiness ta ry n W. mor r iSSey , SCot t W. a ll a r d, a nd eliz a Beth pelletier This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and statelevel policy features shape children's early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children's outcomes.

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Family-centered measures of access to early care and education

Cited by 21 publications

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Mapping Access to Affordable Early Childhood Education and Care: Methodology and Application to Community Advocacy

Mapping Access to Affordable Early Childhood Education and Care: Methodology and Application to Community Advocacy

Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on food security in early childhood

Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness

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