The Relationship between Child Care Subsidies and Children's Cognitive Development

Autor/inn/en	Hawkinson, Laura E.; Griffen, Andrew S.; Dong, Nianbo; Maynard, Rebecca A.
Titel	The Relationship between Child Care Subsidies and Children's Cognitive Development
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28 (2013) 2, S.388-404 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.10.002
Schlagwörter	School Readiness; Child Care; Kindergarten; Grants; Mathematics Skills; Child Development; Cognitive Development; Low Income Groups; Preschool Children; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Kindesentwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	Child care subsidies help low-income families pay for child care while parents work or study. Few studies have examined the effects of child care subsidy use on child development, and no studies have done so controlling for prior cognitive skills. We use rich, longitudinal data from the ECLS-B data set to estimate the relationship between child care subsidy use and school readiness, using value-added regression models as well as parametric and non-parametric models with propensity score matching. Compared to a diverse group of subsidy non-recipients in various types of non-parental care as well as parental care only, we find that child care subsidy use during preschool is negatively associated with children's math skills at kindergarten entry. However, sensitivity analysis suggests that these findings could be easily overturned if unobserved factors affect selection into subsidy receipt. (Contains 10 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10