do child care centers benefit poor children after school entry?  

Oleh:

Bassok, Daphna ; French, Desiree

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal Of Early Childhood Research vol. 06 no. 03 (Oct. 2008), page 211–231.
Topik: child care effects; family poverty; maternal practices
Fulltext: 211.pdf (241.32KB)

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Attendance in preschool centers can yield short-term benefi ts for children from poor or middle-class families. Yet debate persists in Europe and the United States over whether centers yield gains of suffi cient magnitude to sustain children’s cognitive or social advantages as they move through primary school. We report on child care and home environments of 229 children in the US who were 2½ years of age (on average) at entry to the study. Among children attending a center at 2½ or 4½ years of age, cognitive profi ciencies were signifi cantly higher at 7½ years of age, compared with children in home-based care, after taking into account prior profi ciency levels, maternal attributes, and other covariates. No relationship between center attendance and social development, positive or negative, was detected at 7½. A priori selection factors modestly helped to explain the likelihood that mothers enrolled their child in a center. But associations between center exposure and higher cognitive profi ciency at age 7½ remained after controlling for selection factors and testing for omitted variables bias.

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