Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

By Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly provided universal pre-school programs and family day care vis-a-vis home care. We find that, compared to home care, being enrolled in pre-school at age three does not lead to significant differences in child outcomes at age seven no matter the gender or mother’s level of education. Family day care, on the other hand, seems to significantly deteriorate outcomes for boys whose mothers have a lower level of education. Finally, increasing hours in family day care from 30-40 hours per week to 40-50 hours per week and hours in pre-school from 20-30 hours per week to 30-40 hours per week leads to significantly poorer child outcomes.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Does early child care affect children's development? (2018, neutral): “In the context of Denmark, Datta-Gupta and Simonsen (2010) find that children benefit more from center-based care than from lower-quality informal day care.”
PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: The impact of Nordic countries’ family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children (2008, background): “Two recent studies which analyze changes in the gender wage gap over time in Sweden and Denmark document the stagnation of overall relative female wages and uncover interesting characteristics when looking at different parts of the wage distribution, see Albrecht et al. (2003) and Datta Gupta et al.”
Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance (2018, background): “Datta Gupta and Simonsen (2010) also find no evidence that enrollment in center-based care at age 3 in Denmark improves child outcomes, and Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel (2007) find mixed effects of pre-K attendance in the United States, including positive short-lived effects on academic skills and…”
Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development (2014, background): “Subgroup analysis with respect to parental education also supports the findings from previous studies that public childcare is particularly beneficial for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (Datta Gupta and Simonsen 2010; Havnes and Mogstad 2011; Fitzpatrick 2008).”
Behavioral Economics of Education (2015, background): “In contrast to Gneezy et al. (2003), Datta Gupta et al. (2013) however do not bserve a clear gender gap in performance.”
Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? (2015, neutral): “Datta Gupta and Simonsen (2010) exploit variation across municipalities in Denmark in access to center based care.”
Maternity leave and children’s cognitive and behavioral development (2014, neutral): “Magnuson et al. (2007), Baker et al. (2008), and Datta Gupta and Simonsen (2010), and the research summarized in Belsky (2006) provide further evidence that non-parental care can have negative behavioral effects in some contexts.”