Who uses early childhood education and care services? Comparing socioeconomic selection across five western policy contexts

doi:10.1186/s40723-017-0028-8

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Title: Who uses early childhood education and care services? Comparing socioeconomic selection across five western policy contexts
Creator: Petitclerc, Amélie
Creator: Doyle, Orla
Creator: Burchinal, Margaret
Creator: Herba, Catherine
Creator: Zachrisson, Henrik Daae
Creator: Boivin, Michel
Creator: Tremblay, Richard E.
Creator: Tiemeier, Henning
Creator: Jaddoe, Vincent
Creator: Côté, Sylvana M.
Creator: Raat, Hein
Subject: дошкольное воспитание
дети младшего возраста
социально-экономические диспропорции
занятость матерей
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1186/s40723-017-0028-8
Description: Growing evidence suggests that children’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC), especially center-based services, is associated with positive outcomes, particularly for children over one year of age and children of low socioeconomic backgrounds. This signals an important opportunity for reducing socioeconomic disparities in young children’s development. Many western countries have adopted policies to encourage maternal employment, facilitate ECEC service use, or both, often focusing on disadvantaged families. Yet few studies to date have tested the impact of these policies for reducing socioeconomic selection into ECEC. This study integrates data from five cohorts of children living in different western, high-income countries (UK, USA, Netherlands, Canada, and Norway; total N = 21,437). We compare participation rates and socioeconomic selection into ECEC across the different policy contexts in infancy (5–9 months) and early childhood (36–41 months). Policy environments where parents had access to at least 6 months of paid maternity/parental leave had lower ECEC participation in infancy but higher participation in early childhood. Higher participation rates were also associated with universal ECEC subsidies (i.e., not targeted to low-income families). In general, low income, low maternal education and having more than one child were associated with reduced use of ECEC. Selection effects related to low income and number of children were reduced in countries with universal ECEC subsidies when out-of-pocket fees were income-adjusted or reduced for subsequent children, respectively. Most socioeconomic selection effects were reduced in Norway, the only country to invest more than 1% of its GDP into early childhood. Nevertheless, low maternal education was consistently associated with reduced use of ECEC services across all countries. Among families using services however, there were few selection effects for the type of ECEC setting (center-based vs. non-center-based), particularly in early childhood. In sum, this comparative study suggests wide variations in ECEC participation that can be linked to the policy context, and highlights key policy elements which may reduce socioeconomic disparities in ECEC use.

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Identifier: vtls:000629889
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Type: статьи в журналах
Source: International journal of child care and education policy. 2017. Vol. 11, № 1. P. 1-24
Language: eng

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Факультет психологии Who uses early childhood education and care services? Comparing socioeconomic selection across five western policy contexts