Child care subsidies and care arrangements of low-income parents

The Problem of Measurement Error in Self-Reported Receipt of Child-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Two States

“…Studies examining the effect of subsidy receipt on various outcomes frequently use survey data ðMeyers et al. 2002;Tekin 2005Tekin , 2007Weinraub et al 2005;Blau and Tekin 2007;Rigby et al 2007;Herbst and Tekin 2010, 2011a, 2012Ryan et al 2011;Ahn 2012;Ertas and Shields 2012;Johnson et al 2012;Forry et al 2013;Johnson et al 2013Þ. the probability of employment by 25 percentage points, the estimated effect would be only a 12.5 percentage point increase ðusing the numbers in this exampleÞ. Biases become even more problematic and complex when misreporting is systematic and more covariates are included in the model.…”

Child care subsidies and the stability and quality of child care arrangements

“…However, the evidence to date on whether subsidy receipt results in higher quality care has been mixed. A number of studies have found that those who receive child care subsidies are more likely to use center care (Burstein & Layzer, 2007;Crosby, Gennetian, & Huston, 2005;Ertas & Shields, 2012;Herbst, 2008;Marshall, Robeson, Tracy, Frye, & Roberts, 2013;Tekin, 2005;Weber, Grobe, & Davis, 2014;Wolfe & Scrivner, 2004). Center care is documented to be higher quality on average than other types of care on some indicators of quality (Bassok, Fitzpatrick, Greenberg, & Loeb, 2016;Bigras et al, 2010;Dowsett, Huston, Imes, & Gennetian, 2008;Fuller, Kagan, Loeb, & Chang, 2004) and can support developmental gains (Campbell, Ramey, Pugnello, Sparling, & Miller-Johnson, 2002;Loeb et al, 2004;NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2002;Reynolds & Temple, 1998;Schweinhart & Weikart, 1998).…”

Do increased availability and reduced cost of early childhood care and education narrow social inequality gaps in utilization? Evidence from Norway

“…Disparities in ECEC use between higher-and lower-SES families have been observed in very different socio-political contexts across the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD 2006) including samples from the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (Jenkins and Symons 2001;Tang et al 2012;Michalopoulos and Robins 2000;Vandenbroeck et al 2008). Universal access might eliminate SES gaps in ECEC use, as was the case in the United States when kindergarten became universal, with income no longer being a predictor of enrollment (Ertas and Shields 2012). Yet, social inequality in ECEC participation is evident even in those countries with the most comprehensive ECEC and family policies (e.g., Norway and Denmark; Adema 2012).…”