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And it was about as vague as could possibly be: > But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in
by jperras 7y ago
And it was about as vague as could possibly be:
> But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in self-reported health and in life satisfaction” relative to Canadians from other provinces. So, did the Quebec child-care experiment “work”? Yes, for parents and public financing. Perhaps not for the kids.
The paper itself expands on it a little bit more:
> A recent view of effects of previous child care exposure on outcomes in adolescence suggest that more hours in child care in general does not affect test scores, but has a negative effect on non-cognitive outcomes, such as impulsivity and risk-taking (Vandell et al., 2010).
These negative findings have nothing at all to do with subsidized vs. non-subsidized childcare. They're essentially comparing children in daycare vs. children that are able to be raised by one or more parents, full-time.
Would kids be better off being raised by their parents more than being raised by specialized childcare workers? Perhaps. But not everyone is given that opportunity, regardless.
- aidenn0 7y agoSubsidizing something tends to increase the utilization of it, so more kids will be in childcare if you subsidize childcare. Intuitively the extremely poor will benefit (the kid would have been neglected or malnourished &c. without subsidized child care) at the expense of the slightly less poor (the kid would have had a stay-at-home parent without subsidized child care). Policy is full of tradeoffs (and politics is full of lying about the tradeoffs to get support for a particular policy).
- stevenicr 7y agoI've been taking an interest in issues around this: "child care in general does not affect test scores, but has a negative effect on non-cognitive outcomes, such as impulsivity and risk-taking (Vandell et al., 2010)." Lately. I believe this is serious factor in the seemingly exponential rise in juvenile crimes in our city lately. I have also been exploring bad learning / testing in the schools along with lots of other problems like bullying and violence.. talking with some people who work in these areas, it appears no amount of money thrown at the schools / teachers / in school counselors / resource officers is going to fix it... unless things are fixed at the homes of all the kids in the community. I believe in many of these communities one of the prevalent factors is no stay at home parent.. and sadly this has been going on for so long, in many cases the parents do not have the right knowledge or skills to teach the kids as they likely grew up in a similar no at-home parents, stare at the tube and get bigger kind of situation as well. I am interested in any research into these areas.
- stevenicr 7y agostrangely, a day after posting this comment, I see Harvard Business Journal does an article relating... https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-our-careers-affect-our-children https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-our-careers-affect-our-children