Estimating the Consequences of Norway's National Scale-Up of Early Childhood Education and Care (Beginning in Infancy) for Early Language Skills

Autor/inn/en	Dearing, Eric; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Mykletun, Arnstein; Toppelberg, Claudio O.
Titel	Estimating the Consequences of Norway's National Scale-Up of Early Childhood Education and Care (Beginning in Infancy) for Early Language Skills
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 4 (2018) 1, (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Infants; Early Childhood Education; Educational Quality; At Risk Students; Disadvantaged Youth; Toddlers; Access to Education; Language Skills; Language Acquisition; Low Income Students; Preschool Education; Program Effectiveness; Educational Policy; Child Language; Child Care; Family Income; Norway; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Infants; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Familieneinkommen; Norwegen; USA
Abstract	While most early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs taken to scale in the United States have served socially disadvantaged 3- to 5-years-olds, Norway scaled up universal ECEC from age 1. We investigated the consequences of Norway's universal ECEC scale-up for children's early language skills, exploiting variation in ECEC coverage across birth cohorts and municipalities in a population-based sample (n = 63,350). Estimates from two-stage least squares (i.e., instrumental variable) regression and generalized difference-in-differences models indicated the scale-up of universal ECEC led to improved language outcomes, particularly for low-income children. As preschool programs at scale become increasingly common in the United States, our results from Norway help inform debate about the merits of universal versus targeted policies and should provoke discussion about the benefits of beginning ECEC programs as early as infancy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01