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Do More Hours in Center-Based Care Cause More Externalizing Problems? A Cross-National Replication Study
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Rey-Guerra, Catalina; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Berry, Daniel; Kuger, Susanne; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Naerde, Ane; van Huizen, Thomas; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2023
Whether high quantities of center-based care cause behavior problems is a controversial question. Studies using covariate adjustment for selection factors have detected relations between center care and behavior problems, but studies with stronger internal validity less often find such evidence. We examined whether within-child changes in hours in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Time
Family Income Dynamics, Early Childhood Education and Care, and Early Child Behavior Problems in Norway
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Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric – Child Development, 2015
The sociopolitical context of Norway includes low poverty rates and universal access to subsidized and regulated Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). In this context, the association between family income dynamics and changes in early child behavior problems was investigated, as well as whether high-quality ECEC buffers children from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Little Evidence That Time in Child Care Causes Externalizing Problems during Early Childhood in Norway
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Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Lekhal, Ratib; Toppelberg, Claudio O. – Child Development, 2013
Associations between maternal reports of hours in child care and children's externalizing problems at 18 and 36 months of age were examined in a population-based Norwegian sample ("n" = 75,271). Within a sociopolitical context of homogenously high-quality child care, there was little evidence that high quantity of care causes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Behavior Problems, Context Effect
Change in Family Income-to-Needs Matters More for Children with Less.
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Dearing, Eric; McCartney, Kathleen; Taylor, Beck A. – Child Development, 2001
Examined associations between income-to-needs change and child outcomes at 36 months for NICHD Study of Early Child Care participants. Found that for children in poverty, income-to-needs decreases related to worse outcomes and increases related to better outcomes. When income-to-needs increases were at least one standard deviation above mean…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language