2017
DOI: 10.1186/s40723-017-0028-8
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Who uses early childhood education and care services? Comparing socioeconomic selection across five western policy contexts

Abstract: Growing evidence suggests that children's participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC), especially center-based services, is associated with positive outcomes, particularly for children over one year of age and children of low socioeconomic backgrounds. This signals an important opportunity for reducing socioeconomic disparities in young children's development. Many western countries have adopted policies to encourage maternal employment, facilitate ECEC service use, or both, often focusing on di… Show more

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“…However, population‐level interventions targeting low socioeconomic status (SES) families are expensive and challenging to implement. Child‐care services, which have become widely used over the past decades (60%–90% in Europe and North America; Petitclerc et al., ), have been promoted as an efficacious way to counteract early exposure to high‐risk home environments (Côté, Borge, Geoffroy, Rutter, & Tremblay, ; Côté et al., ; Herba et al., ; Laurin et al., ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, population‐level interventions targeting low socioeconomic status (SES) families are expensive and challenging to implement. Child‐care services, which have become widely used over the past decades (60%–90% in Europe and North America; Petitclerc et al., ), have been promoted as an efficacious way to counteract early exposure to high‐risk home environments (Côté, Borge, Geoffroy, Rutter, & Tremblay, ; Côté et al., ; Herba et al., ; Laurin et al., ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Generally, findings suggest that the use of childcare services is more common among families with higher educated mothers in the US (Coley, Votruba-Drzal, Collins and Miller, 2014;Crosnoe, Purtell, Davis-Kean, Ansari and Benner, 2016) as well as in European countries (Petitclerc et al, 2017;Zachrisson, Janson and Naerde, 2013). Furthermore, children with highly educated mothers attend childcare at younger ages (Petitclerc et al, 2017) and also spend more hours in ECEC settings (Early and Burchinal, 2001). Educational differences regarding childcare usage are also found in the German context: Low-educated mothers tend to enroll their children at older ages or do not register them at all (Büchner and Spiess, 2007;Krapf, 2014;Kreyenfeld and Krapf, 2016;Schober and Spiess, 2013;Schober and Stahl, 2014;.…”
Section: Overview Of Previous Researchmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Generally, findings suggest that the use of childcare services is more common among families with higher educated mothers in the US (Coley, Votruba-Drzal, Collins and Miller, 2014;Crosnoe, Purtell, Davis-Kean, Ansari and Benner, 2016) as well as in European countries (Petitclerc et al, 2017;Zachrisson, Janson and Naerde, 2013). Furthermore, children with highly educated mothers attend childcare at younger ages (Petitclerc et al, 2017) and also spend more hours in ECEC settings (Early and Burchinal, 2001).…”
Section: Overview Of Previous Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Barnett, 2011, Camilli et al, 2010, Dearing et al, 2009, Melhuish et al, 2008b, Zachrisson and Dearing, 2015. Although some countries have implemented targeted equity policies such that disadvantaged children can experience higher quality ECEC (Leseman et al, 2017, Slot et al, 2015a, it is a paradox that in other countries there still remains social selection into ECEC and ECEC quality, with socio-economically disadvantaged children being the least likely to attend high-quality ECEC (Petitclerc et al, 2017). This includes countries with market-based and targeted programmes (e.g.…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%