Gender-specific effects of early childhood intervention. Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.

Autor/inn/en	Sandner, Malte; Jungmann, Tanja
Titel	Gender-specific effects of early childhood intervention. Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Wirkungen von Interventionen im frühen Kindesalter. Befunde aus einer randomisierten kontrollierten Studie.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2017) 45, S. 59-78 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2016.11.006
Schlagwörter	Intelligenz (Psy); Kognitive Kompetenz; Leistungsfähigkeit; Junge; Benachteiligtenförderung; Kind; Kinderbetreuung; Frühpädagogik; Mädchen; Bremen; Niedersachsen; Sachsen
Abstract	"This paper investigates the effects of an early childhood intervention in Germany that begins prenatally and continues until the child's second birthday. The intervention consists of home visits and targets socially disadvantaged first-time mothers to improve child development. The effects on child development were assessed via developmental tests in a randomized controlled trial. Home visits significantly improved girls' cognitive development during the first 24 months after birth. In contrast, the intervention had no effect on boys. These gender-specific outcomes can be explained by greater increases in parental investment (e.g. reading to the child) for girls than for boys. Our results demonstrate that early childhood interventions have an effect on early cognitive child development, although concentrated on girls, in a country where a wide range of additional support services are available for disadvantaged mothers with young children." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/4