eprintid: 10055251
rev_number: 39
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datestamp: 2018-09-05 11:52:52
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bernal, R
creators_name: Attanasio, O
creators_name: Peña, X
creators_name: Vera-Hernández, M
title: The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Childcare to Childcare Centers on Children's Health and Development in Colombia
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F24
keywords: Colombia, child development, home-based childcare, center-based childcare, poverty, nutrition
note: Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
abstract: Colombia’s national early childhood strategy launched in 2011 aimed at improving the quality of childcare services offered to socio-economically vulnerable children, and included the possibility that children and their childcare providers could transfer from nonparental family daycare units to large childcare centers in urban areas. This study seeks to understand whether the offer to transfer and the actual transfer from one program to the other had an impact on child cognitive and socioemotional development, and nutrition, using a cluster-randomized control trial with a sample of 2,767 children between the ages of 6 and 60 months located in 14 cities in Colombia. The results indicate a negative effect of this initiative on cognitive development, a positive effect on nutrition and no statistically significant effect of the intervention on socioemotional development. We also explored the extent to which these impacts might be explained by differences in the quality of both services during the transition, and report that quality indicators are low in both programs but are significantly worse in centers compared to community nurseries.
date: 2019
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.005
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Journal Article
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1581382
doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.005
lyricists_name: Attanasio, Orazio
lyricists_name: Vera Hernandez, Angel
lyricists_id: OPATT42
lyricists_id: AMVER47
actors_name: Vera Hernandez, Angel
actors_id: AMVER47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly
volume: 47
pagerange: 418-431
citation:        Bernal, R;    Attanasio, O;    Peña, X;    Vera-Hernández, M;      (2019)    The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Childcare to Childcare Centers on Children's Health and Development in Colombia.                   Early Childhood Research Quarterly , 47    pp. 418-431.    10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.005 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.005>.       Green open access   
 
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