Center-Based Child Care and Differential Improvements In the Child Development Outcomes of Disadvantaged Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research finds center-based child care typically benefits children of low socio-economic status (SES) but few studies have examined if it also reduces inequalities in developmental disadvantage.

Objective

I test if the length of time in center-based care between ages one and three years associates with child development scores at age three years, focusing on the impact for groups of children in the lower tercile of child development scores and in the lower SES tercile.

Methods

Using data from 1,606 children collected in a nationally representative Chilean survey, I apply a value-added approach to measure gains in child development scores between age one and three years that are associated with length of time in center-based child care.

Results

Disadv

SUBMITTER: Reynolds SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9162208 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature