Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; Wiederhold, Simon

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“…(2018) instead comprises those children in parental care, who are, on average, more socioeconomically disadvantaged (Hermes et al . 2021). Moreover, Cornelissen et al .…”

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“…of the population, compared to those who remain in parental care. The untreated sample ofCornelissen et al (2018) instead comprises those children in parental care, who are, on average, more socioeconomically disadvantaged(Hermes et al 2021). Moreover, Cornelissen et al (2018 compare the impacts of parental care versus non-parental care on cognitive and motor skills, and health, rather than on non-cognitive skills, and for a country (Germany) that appears to demonstrate positive consequences of CBC.…”

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The Impact of Centre‐based Childcare on Non‐cognitive Skills of Young Children

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2022

Economica

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Early development of non-cognitive skills has long-lasting benefits for children's subsequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare (CBC) in infancy and early years promotes non-cognitive skills by school entry. We focus on the type of non-parental childcare used by mothers who are working when their child is 9 months old, comparing CBC with other forms of non-parental care. We consider the impact of childcare type on three domains of socio-emotional skills: externalizing, internalizing and prosocial behaviours. We find negative effects of CBC on both externalizing and prosocial behaviours. With a cumulative value-added model, we estimate that CBC at age 3 worsens externalizing behaviour at age 5 by 0.11 standard deviations compared to other forms of non-parental care, equivalent to 44% of the difference in externalizing behaviour between children with a mother with/without tertiary education. The effect of CBC on the externalizing dimension of socio-emotional skills of children entering school is consistent across several specifications and robustness checks. Given planned expansion of CBC for those needing subsidized provision, we conclude that such measures could exacerbate socio-emotional inequalities.This paper is part of the Economica 100 Series. Economica, the LSE "house journal" is now 100 years old. To commemorate this achievement, we are publishing 100 papers by former students, as well as current and former faculty.

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“…(2018) instead comprises those children in parental care, who are, on average, more socioeconomically disadvantaged (Hermes et al . 2021). Moreover, Cornelissen et al .…”

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The Impact of Centre‐based Childcare on Non‐cognitive Skills of Young Children

Morando

Platt

2022

Economica

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“…Even though some studies in Germany have found strong relations between family risk and behavior regulation in children (e.g., Deffaa et al, 2020;Pitzer et al, 2011), other studies point out effects of more distal contextual aspects that might be relevant for children's development in Germany. Some studies revealed that children in Germany with high family risk profit highly from childcare enrollment, which is subsidized in the German social-welfare system, so that it is affordable for everybody (Hermes et al, 2021;Hübenthal and Ifland, 2011). As we contacted our participants in Germany through schools and social workers, participating families were in contact with social workers already and thus they might have been integrated into a social support system that might have buffered the effect of a high family risk.…”

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The Role of Culture and Contextual Risk for Maternal Parenting and Children’s Behavior Regulation in Chile and Germany

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Children’s behavior regulation development takes place in diverse sociocultural settings. In this study, we take a multilayer ecological perspective and examine cross-cultural as well as intra-cultural similarities and differences in relations between different aspects of contextual risks (i.e., family and neighborhood risk), maternal restrictive control, and children’s behavior regulation in Chile and Germany. One hundred sixty-seven mothers of primary school children in Chile and 109 mothers in Germany (total sample M (child age) = 10.01 years) completed questionnaires on family risk, parenting practices, and their child’s behavior regulation. Mothers in Germany rated children’s behavior regulation significantly higher than mothers in Chile. Further, in both cultural contexts (Chile, Germany), the higher the family risk, the higher was the use of maternal restrictive control and the lower the child’s behavior regulation. In Chile, after including maternal restrictive control, the relation between family risk and children’s behavior regulation remained significant. In Germany, in contrast, there was no direct significant relation between family risk and children’s behavior regulation, instead we found a significant indirect pathway via maternal restrictive control. Further, we investigated the moderating role of neighborhood risk, as distal contextual risk, for the relation between family risk and maternal restrictive control as well as for the relation between maternal restrictive control and children’s behavior regulation. We found no significant overall moderated mediation effect. However, findings in Chile and Germany revealed a conditional indirect effect indicating that family risk and behavior regulation were indirectly related via maternal restrictive control only when neighborhood risk was high. This underlines the need for an integrative consideration of the cultural context as well as family risk and neighborhood risk when investigating the role of maternal parenting for children’s behavior regulation development.

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“…A significant practical problem with all early childhood education programs is that, while benefits appear to be greatest for the most disadvantaged children (Cornelissen et al, 2018;Gray-Lobe et al, 2021;Havnes and Mogstad, 2015), take up is much greater for the children of the advantaged (e.g., Hermes et al, 2021). Outreach is an important issue that needs to be actively addressed if these programs are to be successfully implemented on a wide scale.…”

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