Maternal Education, Early Child Care and the Reproduction of Advantage

Autor/inn/en	Augustine, Jennifer March; Cavanagh, Shannon E.; Crosnoe, Robert
Titel	Maternal Education, Early Child Care and the Reproduction of Advantage
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 88 (2009) 1, S.1-30 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Human Capital; Social Capital; Educational Attainment; Mothers; Selection; Child Care; School Readiness; Advantaged; Employment Level + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Sozialkapital; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Mother; Mutter; Auslese; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Beschäftigungsgrad
Abstract	The social and human capital that educational attainment provides women enables them to better navigate their children's passages through school. In this study, we examine a key mechanism in this intergenerational process: mothers' selection of early child care. Analyses of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development revealed that maternal education was positively associated with configurations of child-care characteristics (i.e., type, quality, quantity) most closely linked to children's school readiness. This association was not solely a function of mother's income or employment status, persisted despite controls for many observable confounds (e.g., maternal cognitive and psychological skills, paternal characteristics), and, according to post-hoc indices, was fairly robust in terms of unobservable confounds. (Contains 1 figure, 6 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10