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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	María Caridad Araujo
Format:	Working Papers biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
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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