ArticleChild & youth care forum2022
Center-Based Child Care and Differential Improvements In the Child Development Outcomes of Disadvantaged Children.
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- Neurodevelopmental assessments used to measure preschoolers' cognitive development in Latin America: a systematic review.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of psychosocial stimulation on the development, nutrition, and treatment outcomes of hospitalised children with severe acute malnutrition in Southern Ethiopia: a cluster randomised control trial: EPSoSAMC study.Journal of nutritional science · 2025Trial
- Cohort Profile: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ELPI), Chile.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- More hours in childcare do not mean better development: rethinking quantity, timing, and inequality in early childhood care.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- The feasibility, acceptability, cost and benefits of a "communities of practice" model for improving the quality of childcare centres: a mixed-methods study in the informal settlements in Nairobi.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Factors associated with carrying out activities to stimulate child development in the family context.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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backgroundResearch finds center-based child care typically benefits children of low socio-economic status (SES) but few studies have examined if it also reduces inequalities in developmental disadvantage.
objectiveI test if the length of time in center-based care between ages one and three years associates with child development scores at age three years, focusing on the impact for groups of children in the lower tercile of child development scores and in the lower SES tercile.
methodsUsing data from 1,606 children collected in a nationally representative Chilean survey, I apply a value-added approach to measure gains in child development scores between age one and three years that are associated with length of time in center-based child care.
resultsDisadvantages at age one year were associated with lower child development scores at age three years. No benefits of additional time in center-based care were found for the non-disadvantaged group, but positive associations were found between more time in center-based care and child development outcomes for children with the SES disadvantage only. Center-based care was not associated with child development trajectories of children with lower child development scores at age one year, no matter their SES status.
conclusionsThere is evidence that Chilean center-based child care reduces SES inequality in child development scores between ages one and three years, but only if children already were not low-scorers at age one year.
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