Author: Tarjei HavnesPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?
Author: Tarjei HavnesIs universal child care leveling the playing field? evidence from non-linear difference-in-differences
Author: Is Universal Child Care Levelling the Playing Field?
Author: Tarjei HavnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
"Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in evaluating universal child care systems is to measure the impact on child development in a way that allows the effects to vary systematically over the outcome distribution. Using non-linear DD methods, we investigate how the introduction of large-scale, publicly subsidized child care in Norway affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as adults. We find that mean impacts miss a lot: while child care had a small and insignificant mean impact, effects were positive over the bulk of the earnings distribution, and sizable below the median. This is an important observation since previous empirical studies of universal child care have focused on mean impacts. We further demonstrate that the essential features of our empirical findings could not have been revealed using mean impact analysis on typically defined subgroups. This is because the intragroup variation in the child care effects is relatively large compared to the intergroup variation in mean impacts."--Abstract.
The Policies of Childcare and Early Childhood Education
Author: Katja RepoPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788117751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This timely book reveals how policies of childcare and early childhood education influence children’s circumstances and the daily lives of families with children. Examining how these policies are approached, it focuses particularly on the issues and pitfalls related to equal access.
Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Author: Hans-Peter BlossfeldPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786432099
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attainment.
The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy
Author: John ListPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000384314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability—and what enables it—in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and apply the science of scaling in their programs, research, and decision making. Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health, philanthropy, and more, chapters and commentaries shine light on how to effectively use experimental insights for policy purposes. The result is a comprehensive and forward-thinking guide to the challenges and possibilities of effective scaling in early childhood and beyond. Essential reading for researchers, practitioners, funders, and policy makers alike, this book raises vital questions and provides a vision for the long-term journey to scalable evidence.
A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264301089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This report provides new evidence on social mobility in the context of increased inequalities of income and opportunities in OECD and selected emerging economies. It covers the aspects of both, social mobility between parents and children and of personal income mobility over the life course, ...
Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II
Author: Robert A. MoffittPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639252X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update the earlier Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States with a discussion of the many changes in means-tested government programs and the results of new research over the past decade. While some programs that experienced falling outlays in the years prior to the previous volume have remained at low levels of expenditure, many others have grown, including Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and subsidized housing programs. For each program, the contributors describe its origins and goals, summarize its history and current rules, and discuss recipients’ characteristics and the types of benefits they receive. This is an invaluable reference for researchers and policy makers that features detailed analyses of many of the most important transfer programs in the United States.
An Equal Start?
Author: Gambaro, LudovicaPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447310527
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this topical book, leading experts from eight countries examine how early education and care is organised, funded and regulated in their countries.
The Myth of the Level Playing Field
Author: Jerry FowlerPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684090415
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Myth of the Level Playing Field examines the idea prevalent in American culture that all Americans have a level playing field and an equal opportunity for success. It describes the essential elements of life in order to decide if there is, indeed, equal access to nutritious, affordable food; to affordable, quality healthcare; top life without risk to safety or liberty; to quality education; to affordable, safe housing; and to legal ways to make a living to support a decent lifestyle. The author, Jerry Fowler, analyzed these elements, pointing out common themes and drawing conclusions and thus recommending changes in public policy, legal philosophy, political behaviors, popular attitudes, personal responsibility, and political ideology. This book offers psychological insights as well as political and economic analysis. Any reader that suspects that the game is rigged will have those suspicions validated. Those who think that all that is required for success is hard work and persistence will come to see the fallacy of this idea. This book will generate discussion and increase awareness of the system’s inequities, foster compassion for those less fortunate, and entice them to vote for significant change in American society.