Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality: Early inequalities in educational opportunity?

Stahl, Juliane F.; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2017.10.011

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“…See e.g. Stahl, Schober, and Spiess (2017), for an empirical study which shows that disadvantaged children receive lower-quality ECEC in Germany. 3.…”

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“…Regarding group composition, several studies document that a higher average level of peer abilities in an ECEC center is positively associated with children's cognitive and language skills (e.g. Stahl, Schober, and Spiess 2017). A large proportion of children with non-German family language in ECEC centers has been shown to be negatively associated with German language acquisition of children with a non-German family language (e.g.…”

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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Camehl

Schober

Spieß

2018

Education Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). We compare quality perceptions by parents and by professionals across 734 institutions. We detect considerable information asymmetries that differ across quality measures but less so by parental socio-economic background or center characteristics. Both similarly contribute to explaining variations in the information gap. We conclude that information is not readily available to parents; an issue that should be addressed by policy-makers. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…See e.g. Stahl, Schober, and Spiess (2017), for an empirical study which shows that disadvantaged children receive lower-quality ECEC in Germany. 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Camehl

Schober

Spieß

2018

Education Economics

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“…Educational differences regarding childcare usage are also found in the German context: Low-educated mothers tend to enroll their children at older ages or do not register them at all (Büchner and Spiess, 2007;Krapf, 2014;Kreyenfeld and Krapf, 2016;Schober and Spiess, 2013;Schober and Stahl, 2014;. Also, children with a low-educated main caregiver experience lower quality in childcare institutions for children aged over three (Stahl, Schober and Spiess, 2018).…”

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Deciding on the timing of early public childcare in Germany. An application of rational choice theory.

Steinberg¹,

Kleinert²

2019

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This study investigates some of the mechanisms, which lead to social inequalities in the usage of early childhood education and care (ECEC) by focusing on a recent period of public childcare expansion in Germany. Based on sociological rational educational decision models, we model the decision to use ECEC as a rational cost-benefit investment strategy, which simultaneously affects the human capital of mothers and children. We test our assumptions with data from the new-born cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS-SC1), estimating event history models. Results indicate that cost-benefit calculations are indeed relevant for the timing of ECEC take-up, but do not explain social differences. Mothers who perceive ECEC take-up as an investment into child development and as an opportunity to maintain their own occupational status take up ECEC earlier. This association is particularly pronounced for highly educated mothers. Moreover, differences for East and West Germany highlight the importance of the cultural context for cost-benefit considerations.

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“…There is increasing interest in understanding the relationship between a parent's socio-economic status (SES) and a child's education attainment (Alhaidari et al, 2016;Stahl, Schober & Spiess, 2018). A parent's SES affects the parent's education involvement in a child's life.…”

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An Inter-Generational Effect of Socio-Economic Status on Education Attainment in South Africa

Ratshivhanda

Guvuriro

2018

JEBS

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Higher socio-economic status (SES) empowers an individual to have more access to a variety of materials relevant to achievements in life than would otherwise be possible. In theory, a childâ€™s educational attainment can be influenced by hereditary and ecological variables; parentsâ€™ achievements are prompting children to achieve, or a deliberate investment that parents undertake in their childrenâ€™s welfare, all suggestive of inter-generational effect in the process. A parentâ€™s SES may therefore play a significant role in the childâ€™s achievements. This paper attempts to determine the relationship between a parentâ€™s SES and a childâ€™s educational attainment and uses South African data collected at the national level. Employing descriptive statistics and OLS regressions, an inter-generational effect of parental SES positively influencing a childâ€™s educational attainment is established. The finding supports policies promoting education as a fundamental poverty and inequality fighting mechanism in South Africa.

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Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality: Early inequalities in educational opportunity?

Cited by 76 publications

References 42 publications

Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Deciding on the timing of early public childcare in Germany. An application of rational choice theory.

An Inter-Generational Effect of Socio-Economic Status on Education Attainment in South Africa

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