ArticleThe Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF2022
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children's School Readiness.
Article in The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Is early childhood education associated with better midlife cognition, especially for children facing socioeconomic marginalization?PloS one · 2026Article
- National assessment of early intervention services for children with developmental disorders in Lithuania: A mixed-methods study on gaps and future directions.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2023Article
- The spatial inequality of early care and education centers.Early childhood research quarterlyArticle
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This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children's early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children's outcomes.
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