Early Childhood Education and Care Programs in the United States
Does Access Improve Child Safety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10540931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Pac (0000-0003-4960-3016, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-109 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/713077 |
| OpenAlex | W3158803052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 64 |
The aim of this article is to assess the role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) program access and generosity on child maltreatment as measured by Child Protective Services (CPS) reports. Using administrative data capturing CPS reports in the United States, I estimate the role of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) child-care subsidies, Head Start, Early Head Start, state prekindergarten, and universal prekindergarten programs on CPS reports using ordinary least squares and multilevel models. I exploit exogenous variation in state prekindergarten enrollment shocks to compare the CPS reports across children’s age-based eligibility using difference-in-difference-in-difference and event-history frameworks. Results suggest that the largest welfare gains in program access may occur among the youngest children (under age 3), the group for whom program access is most constrained. However, findings from state-level models provide weak overall evidence of a lower-bound benefit
Child care · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Difference in differences · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Econometrics · Economics · Generosity · Head start · Political science · Subsidy · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Early Childhood Education and Development · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |