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Title: Within-Family Differences in Head Start Participation and Parent Investment Behavior
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Gonzalez, Kathryn E. |
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Within-Family Differences in Head Start Participation and Parent Investment Behavior Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Child Care; Head Start; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Investments; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data for the present study come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, and include 4,297 children and families where there were differences across siblings in the type of childcare used (Head Start, other center-based preschool, or home-based care), and where children were aged 3-4 between 1986 and 2002. The outcomes of interest include observer-collected and parent-reported measures of cognitive stimulation and emotional support provided by the child's family from the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory for ages 5 to 14. This study builds on the literature using family fixed effects to estimate the causal impact of Head Start participation (e.g. Garces, Thomas and Currie, 2002). I use family fixed effects to compare levels of parental investment in education (cognitive stimulation and emotional support) throughout childhood (ages 5 to 14) for children who attended Head Start relative to their siblings who did not attend preschool. To account for differences in parental investment over the course of childhood, I compared levels of parental investment when siblings were the same age. |
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Gonzalez, Kathryn E. "Within-Family Differences in Head Start Participation and Parent Investment Behavior." Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016. |