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datestamp: 2022-09-06 13:20:08
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creators_name: Morando, Greta
creators_name: Platt, Lucinda
title: The Impact of Centre-based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
ispublished: inpress
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Social Sciences, Economics, Business & Economics, DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE, MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, OUTCOMES, SPECIFICATION, ACCUMULATION, TECHNOLOGY, STRENGTHS, VARIABLES
note: © 2022 The Authors. Economica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of London School of Economics and Political Science.

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abstract: Early development of non-cognitive skills has long-lasting benefits for children's subsequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare (CBC) in infancy and early years promotes non-cognitive skills by school entry. We focus on the type of non-parental childcare used by mothers who are working when their child is 9 months old, comparing CBC with other forms of non-parental care. We consider the impact of childcare type on three domains of socio-emotional skills: externalizing, internalizing and prosocial behaviours. We find negative effects of CBC on both externalizing and prosocial behaviours. With a cumulative value-added model, we estimate that CBC at age 3 worsens externalizing behaviour at age 5 by 0.11 standard deviations compared to other forms of non-parental care, equivalent to 44% of the difference in externalizing behaviour between children with a mother with/without tertiary education. The effect of CBC on the externalizing dimension of socio-emotional skills of children entering school is consistent across several specifications and robustness checks. Given planned expansion of CBC for those needing subsidized provision, we conclude that such measures could exacerbate socio-emotional inequalities.
date: 2022-08-23
date_type: published
publisher: WILEY
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12440
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1973445
doi: 10.1111/ecca.12440
lyricists_name: Morando, Greta
lyricists_id: GMORA38
actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian
actors_id: DKALI47
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: [Government of Ireland through the Department of Children and Youth Affairs]; ES/S011900/1 [ESRC]; ES/J019135/1 [ESRC]; CoG PARENTIME770839 [European Research Council]
full_text_status: public
publication: Economica
pages: 39
citation:        Morando, Greta;    Platt, Lucinda;      (2022)    The Impact of Centre-based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children.                   Economica        10.1111/ecca.12440 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12440>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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