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Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany

European Sociological Review, 2022
Abstract This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early social inequality in children’s cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by drawing on the new-born sample of the National Educational Panel Study.
Ghirardi, Gaia, Baier, Tina, Kleinert, Corinna, Triventi, Moris   +3 more
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Householdss Responses to Price Changes of Formal Childcare

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The current understanding about how households respond to price changes in formal childcare is not extensive. This study examines this response through a 1998 reform in Norway that introduced a money transfer to families who did not send their child to childcare.
Leroy Andersland, ivind Anti Nilsen
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Formal Childcare Use and Mothers’ Fertility Intentions and Behaviours: Evidence in Italy by Migration Background

European Journal of Population
Abstract Numerous studies have explored the influences of family policies, such as formal childcare use, and migration on fertility, with mixed findings. However, limited research has examined how formal childcare use (or the lack thereof) affects both fertility intentions and behaviours among native and migrant ...
Cristina Giudici, Eleonora Trappolini, Eleonora Mussino   +2 more
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Crowded‐out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany

Social Policy and Administration
AbstractInformal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare.
Ludovica Gambaro
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Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings

SSRN Electronic Journal
This study examines the effect of availability of accredited childcare centers, the most popular category of publicly licensed childcare centers in Japan, on mothers' employment and earnings. We focus on mothers with children less than two years old, most of whom are returning from parental leave to full-time work under excess demand for center-based ...
Fukai, Taiyo, Kondo, Ayako
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Maternal depression symptoms, child behavior problems, and their transactional relations: Probing the role of formal childcare

Development and Psychopathology, 2019
AbstractAmong children exposed to elevated maternal depression symptoms (MDS), recent studies have demonstrated reduced internalizing and externalizing problems for those who have attended formal childcare (i.e., center-based, family-based childcare). However, these studies did not consider whether childcare attendance is associated with benefits for ...
Chantal Paquin, Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, Frank Vitaro, Sylvana M. Côté, Richard E. Tremblay, Jean R. Séguin, Michel Boivin, Catherine M. Herba   +7 more
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Formal Childcare Use and Household Socio-economic Profile in France, Italy, Spain and UK

Population Review, 2011
Marija Mamolo, Lucia Coppola, Mariachiara Di Cesare   +2 more
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Mature student perceptions of formal and informal learning on a diploma in childcare and education course

Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2003
Abstract This study explores the most significant formal and informal learning experiences for mature students on a full-time childcare and early years education (CEYE) course offered by a large Further Education (FE) college in the north east of England, referred to as ‘Riverbank City College’ (RCC) throughout the article.
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Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality

Acta Sociologica
This short article investigates how childcare arrangements under age three affect early social inequalities in children's competencies using a novel decomposition approach ( Yu and Elwert, 2024 ). This framework comprehensively assesses the relevance of childcare arrangements and the channels
Gaia Ghirardi, Filippo Gioachin
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The link between formal childcare uptake and subsequent childbearing: evidence for ten European countries

Journal of Family Studies
Abstract: Despite numerous studies addressing formal childcare uptake, the potential influence of individual-level childcare usage on subsequent birth hazards remains largely underexplored. Utilizing data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), this study employs dynamic propensity score matching and hazard models to address the association ...
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