Maternal child care preferences for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers: the disconnect between policy and preference in the USA

Rose, Katherine K.; Elicker, James

doi:10.1080/13668800903314366

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“…Consistent with research that has found that parents typically prefer center-based care for four-year olds (e.g., Huston et al, 2002;Rose and Elicker, 2010), roughly 60 percent of Home Compliers are three years old, compared to only 45 percent of Center Compliers. We also find that Home Compliers enter the study with lower pre-academic skills.…”

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confidence: 63%

Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type

Feller¹,

Grindal²,

Miratrix³

et al. 2016

Ann. Appl. Stat.

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Early childhood education research often compares a group of children who receive the intervention of interest to a group of children who receive care in a range of different care settings. In this paper, we estimate differential impacts of an early childhood intervention by alternative care setting, using data from the Head Start Impact Study, a large-scale randomized evaluation. To do so, we utilize a Bayesian principal stratification framework to estimate separate impacts for two types of Compliers: those children who would otherwise be in other center-based care when assigned to control and those who would otherwise be in home-based care. We find strong, positive short-term effects of Head Start on receptive vocabulary for those Compliers who would otherwise be in home-based care. By contrast, we find no meaningful impact of Head Start on vocabulary for those Compliers who would otherwise be in other center-based care. Our findings suggest that alternative care type is a potentially important source of variation in early childhood education interventions.

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Section: Lemma 2 (Distribution Of Covariates By Principal Stratum) Usupporting

confidence: 63%

Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type

Feller¹,

Grindal²,

Miratrix³

et al. 2016

Ann. Appl. Stat.

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“…In the past two decades, research on parental preferences regarding the type and intensity of ECEC has gained interest (Gamble et al 2009;Pungello and Kurtz-Costes 1999;Rose and Elicker 2010;Seo 2003;Vandenbroeck et al 2008). Since then, parents' perception of ECEC quality is being studied in particular (Ceglowski and Bacigalupa 2002;Lehrer et al 2015), also from the perspective of low-income families (Barbarin et al 2006;Forry et al 2013;Li-Grining and Coley 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The level-1 control variables were chosen based on the socio-ecological model proposed and developed by quite a number of scholars over the past two decades (Liu 2015;Pungello and Kurtz-Costes 1999;Rose and Elicker 2010;Seo 2003;Sibley et al 2015;Tang et al 2012;Vandenbroeck et al 2008). This model suggests that we take into account various dimensions such as the child, the mother (and sometimes the father), the family and environmental characteristics, as well as maternal well-being and cultural beliefs and preferences with regard to childcare when identifying the determinants of the type and intensity of ECEC used.…”

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Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study

Ünver

Bircan

Nicaise

2018

ICEP

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Background Ensuring the access of every child to an inclusive and good-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is an important priority for governments as ECEC has a more profound and lasting effect on children's learning potential than any other intervention in their later lives at any other age, especially for disadvantaged children (Bowers et al. 2012; Cunha et al. 2006; Heckman 2006; Leseman 2009). An extensive body of literature recognises the social and economic benefits of ECEC for improved child well-being and learning outcomes, prevention of educational disadvantage, enhanced female employment, reduced (child) poverty, increased intergenerational social mobility and favourable outcomes later in life (Cunha et al. 2006; Leseman 2009; OECD 2012). Although the initial focus on ECEC was to free up mothers' time so that they can take part in the labour market (Mahon 2002), in line with scientific evidence on the positive outcomes of ECEC for the children themselves, the European discourse started to focus more on high-quality, holistic, complex, integrated, inter-sectoral and inclusive provision (Herczog 2012). However, whether these services are effectively accessible is often overlooked by researchers and policy makers (Vandenbroeck and Lazzari 2014), even more so for disadvantaged children from low-income families (

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“…We selected these covariates used in the creation process based on theory and prior research describing the characteristics of recipients and the cost, type, or amount of child care used by, or available to, low-income families. For example, prior work has documented associations between families' child care preferences and parent race (Fuller, Holloway, & Liang, 1996), parent immigration status (Yoshikawa, 2011), family income (Early & Burchinal, 2002), parent marital status (Rose & Elicker, 2010), and mother's level of education (Hirshberg, Huang, & Fuller, 2005). There is considerably less research on how state-level characteristics are related to use of child care, but a 2008 review by Lippman and colleagues suggested that state-level aggregates of the above-cited characteristics, along with state policy and macroeconomic conditions, are key factors in explaining cross-state variation in the type, cost, and amount of child care that low-income families use.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Home-Based Child Care Provider Unionization on the Cost, Type, and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois

Grindal

West

Willett

et al. 2015

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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In February 2005, Illinois became the first U.S. state to grant home-based child care providers (HBCPs) the right to form a labor union in order to bargain collectively with the state government. This policy inspired similar efforts across the country and represents a potentially important direction for child care policy. To date, the implications of labor unions for the cost, type, and availability of subsidized child care have not been evaluated empirically. In this study, we examine the impact of granting Illinois HBCPs the right to form a labor union on (a) the type of child care (licensed vs. license-exempt/home-based vs. center-based) used by subsidy-receiving Illinois infants and toddlers; (b) the per-child cost of subsidized child care for infants and toddlers; and (c) the percentage of Illinois infants and toddlers who use child care subsidies. To conduct these analyses, we combine data from the Current Population Survey with Child Care and Development Fund administrative records on U.S. infants and toddlers whose families received child care subsidies during the period from 2002 to 2008. We use both a traditional difference-in-differences as well as a comparative case study with a "synthetic" control group approach. The synthetic control group approach improves on traditional comparative case studies by providing a transparent, empirical approach for constructing the counterfactual, documenting comparison units' contribution to the synthetically created control group and detailing the degree to which the synthetic control group is, or is not, similar to the treated unit on preintervention measures of the outcome as well as on other selected characteristics. We find that subsidy-receiving Illinois infants and toddlers spent an average of between 6.4 and 7 percentage points more hours in licensed care settings, as compared to license-exempt settings, in the three years following child care unionization. We also find that between 0.7 and 1.1 percentage points fewer Illinois infants and toddlers used child care subsidies following unionization. C 2015 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Maternal child care preferences for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers: the disconnect between policy and preference in the USA

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type

Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type

Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study

The Impact of Home-Based Child Care Provider Unionization on the Cost, Type, and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois

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