Child Care Subsidies and Child Development. NBER Working Paper No. 14474

Autor/inn/en	Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Child Care Subsidies and Child Development. NBER Working Paper No. 14474
Quelle	(2008) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Care; Grants; Child Development; Kindergarten; Behavior Problems; Young Children; Low Achievement; Scores + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Kindesentwicklung; Frühe Kindheit; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung
Abstract	Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on a wide range of child outcomes. Drawing on rich data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we document a negative relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the year before kindergarten lowers reading and math test scores and increases a variety of behavior problems at kindergarten entry. Some of these negative effects persist to the end of kindergarten. A tentative explanation for the poorer outcomes is that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10