| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14474
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14474
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| Child Care Subsidies and Child Development |
| Chris M. Herbst; Erdal Tekin
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| 发表日期 | 2008-11-06
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| 出版年 | 2008
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | 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. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Education
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14474
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572148
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Chris M. Herbst,Erdal Tekin. Child Care Subsidies and Child Development. 2008.
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