Influence of Attendance at Day Care on the Common Cold From Birth Through 13 Years of Age

Ball, Thomas M.; Holberg, Catharine J.; Aldous, M. B.; Martínez, Fernando D.; Wright, Anne L.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.156.2.121

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“…30 The e¤ects on cumulative hours of care for this group is also increasing over time (column 3, Table A.4). The e¤ects are smaller in magnitude compared to those of age 5 children not yet age-eligible for kindergarten, because the number of hours of care for children in school decreased following the introduction of full-day kindergarten (see Table 4). Again, the results are robust using Ontario as a control group instead of the RofC (columns 8 and 12).…”

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“…For the 0-2 year-olds parent-reported measures such as "never had a nose/throat/ear infection" are used. These are benign health outcomes and this life experience may have reinforce their immunitary system and their long term health (Ball et al 2002;Lu et al 2004;Côté et al 2010). For children aged 2 to 3 the behaviour of the child is measured using an emotional anxiety score, a physical aggression score, and a separation anxiety score, each based on a serie of parent-reported measures.…”

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“…In 1997, none of the spaces were at the low fee of $5 per day, while most regulated spaces (99.5%) were "low-fee" in 2001. 5 By March 2012, the number of regulated spaces reached 245,107 (with 89% "low-fee"). This represents a 211 percent increase over the [1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012] period.…”

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“…4 See Appendix for more details on this …gure. 5 Information on the number of low-fee spaces is only available as of 2001. As such, it is not possible to present the evolution of the number of low-fee spaces between 1998 and 2001. contribution of the family.…”

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Canadian evidence on ten years of universal preschool policies: The good and the bad

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Abstract:More than ten years ago, to increase mothers' participation in the labour market and to enhance child development, the province of Québec implemented a $5 per day universal childcare policy. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the costs and benefits of the program over that period. A non-experimental evaluation framework based on multiple pre-and post-treatment periods is used to estimate the policy effects. We find that the reform had important and lasting effects on the number of children aged 1 to 4 attending childcare and the numbers of hours they spend in daycare. For children aged 5, we uncovered strong evidence that implementing full-day kindergarten alone was not enough to increase maternal labour force participation and weeks worked, but when combined with the low-fee daycare program it was, and these effects were also long lasting. Our results on cognitive development suggest that the school setting is more successful in raising children's cognitive ability than the daycare setting. Finally, we show that the fiscal costs were most likely larger than the benefits.

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“…Almond and Currie 2011), it is also possible that more infections during early childhood reduces the number of infections later on by strengthening the immune system (see e.g. Ball et al (2002);de Hoog et al 2014). A reduced number of infections during the first preschool year due to improved hygiene may then imply that the child instead experiences more infections later on.…”

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Illness-related absence among preschool children: Insights from a health intervention in Swedish preschools

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Lindahl

2017

Journal of Health Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. IFAU's objective is to promote, support and carry out scientific evaluations. The assignment includes: the effects of labour market and educational policies, studies of the functioning of the labour market and the labour market effects of social insurance policies. IFAU shall also disseminate its results so that they become accessible to different interested parties in Sweden and abroad. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayPapers published in the Working Paper Series should, according to the IFAU policy, have been discussed at seminars held at IFAU and at least one other academic forum, and have been read by one external and one internal referee. They need not, however, have undergone the standard scrutiny for publication in a scientific journal. The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to provide a factual basis for public policy and the public policy discussion. AbstractWe evaluate the effect of a preschool health intervention aimed at reducing infections through improved hygiene practices and training of the staff. The large-scale design enables us to study heterogeneous effects with respect to several child and preschool characteristics that are assumed to be associated with the initial level of absence, and thereby the potential magnitude of the effect. We find no reduction, on average, in children's illness-related absence. This conclusion holds across different age groups of preschool children, and for preschools with varying levels of absence before the intervention. However, we do find some evidence for a decline in illness-related absence among children enrolled in preschool sections with relatively few children. We find some empirical support for that the intervention consisted of components with opposing effects on illness-related absence, which may explain the zero average effect.Keywords: Preschool, absence due to illness JEL-codes: J13, J48 IntroductionAlong with women's increased participation in the labor force, early childhood education and care services 1 have expanded in many OECD countries. In several countries such as France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK more than 90 percent of all 3-year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education (OECD 2014). While a number of studies have found positive impacts of early childhood education programs on both cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes 2 (particularly for disadvantaged children), the picture is less positive when it comes to health benefits. Descriptive evidence demonstrates a sub...

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Colds With a Silver Lining

Bergman¹

2002

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Influence of Attendance at Day Care on the Common Cold From Birth Through 13 Years of Age

Abstract: Attendance at large day care was associated with more common colds during the preschool years. However, it was found to protect against the common cold during the early school years, presumably through acquired immunity. This protection waned by 13 years of age.

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Canadian evidence on ten years of universal preschool policies: The good and the bad

Canadian evidence on ten years of universal preschool policies: The good and the bad

Illness-related absence among preschool children: Insights from a health intervention in Swedish preschools

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