Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Abstract

SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW Berlin This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences:

Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development

“…Our study falls into the category of papers that focus on settings in which public childcare crowds out mainly family care. Most of the existing studies analyzing the consequences of public childcare crowding out family care focus on short-run effects on children's outcomes (Datta Gupta and Simonsen 2010;Felfe and Lalive 2012). The only exception is Drange et al (2012) who analyze the consequences of a reform in Norway in 1997 that lowered the mandatory school starting age from 7 to 6 in terms of children's cognitive outcomes at the end of mandatory schooling.…”

Childcare, early education, and social inequality: Perspectives for a cross-national and multidisciplinary study

“…For example, evidence from a German study on the effect of kindergarten attendance on secondary schooling shows a compensatory effect only for migrant children (Spiess et al 2003). Another recent study from Germany (Felfe and Lalive 2013) found compensatory effects of highquality centre-based care on inequalities in a wide range of skills across children. Although children from more advantageous backgrounds are more likely to be enrolled in high-quality centre-based care, they profit the least; whereas children from less advantageous backgrounds are less likely to attend, but gain the most.…”

The relationship between preschool education attendance and school performance and potential for improvement of preschool education in Serbia

“…(Gormley Jr. et al, 2008), Kаskio (Cascio, 2009), Mаgnuson i sаr. (Magnuson et al, 2004), Pješčić (1977), Ficpаtrik (Fitzpatrick, 2008), Hаvns i Mogstаd (Havnes & Mogstad, 2011), Felfe i Lаliv (Felfe & Lalive, 2012) i Felfe i sar. su direktno vezаnа i zа pitаnjа kojа postаvljаmo u ovom rаdu.…”

“…imа preko 100% više, nego među učenicimа koji nisu bili obuhvаćeni predškolskim vаspitаnjem". Felfe i Laliv (Felfe & Lalive, 2012) takođe zaključuju da "univerzalno (predškolsko, p.a.) vaspitanje može čak da doprinese smanjenju nejednakosti između dece koja dolaze iz različitih socio-ekonomskih sredina".…”