Child Care Quality and Child Development
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers. We show that children have significantly better development outcomes in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents either cannot observe, or do not value, the quality of care.
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| Format: | Working Papers biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Children, Child Development, School Attendance, Child Care Quality, Early Childhood Education, Educational Evaluation, Language Development, I30 - Welfare Well-Being and Poverty: General, J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth, I10 - Health: General, I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs, I00 - Health Education and Welfare: General: General, I25 - Education and Economic Development, I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General, child care, quality, child development, CLASS, ASQ-3, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000664 https://publications.iadb.org/en/child-care-quality-and-child-development |
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