Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality

Contents:

Foreword
Part I: Introduction
1. Childcare, early education, and social inequality: Perspectives for a cross-national and multidisciplinary study
Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Part II: Patterns of care arrangements
2. Who cares for the children? Family social position and childcare arrangements in Italy, 2002-12
Ylenia Brilli, Nevena Kulic, and Moris Triventi

3. Early education and care in Post-Soviet Russia: Social policy and inequality patterns
Yuliya Kosyakova and Gordey Yastrebov

4. Time on leave, timing of preschool - The role of socioeconomic background for preschool start in Sweden
Ida Viklund and Ann-Zofie Duvander

Part III: The role of family care quality
5. The emergence of social disparities - Evidence on early mother-child interaction and infant development from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
Sabine Weinert, Manja Attig, and Hans Guenther Rossbach

6. Social inequality in cognitive outcomes in Ireland: What is the role of the home-learning environment and childcare?
Frances McGinnity, Patricia McMullin, Aisling Murray, and Helen Russell

Part IV: Consequences of care and preschool for early and later educational outcomes
7. Preschool and reading competencies - A cross-national analysis
Johanna Daemmrich and Gosta Esping-Andersen

8. Long-term effects of a system of high-quality universal preschool education in the United States
W. Steven Barnett and Ellen C. Frede

9. Effectiveness of Dutch targeted preschool education policy for disadvantaged children: Evidence from the Pre-COOL study
Paul Leseman, Hanna Mulder, Josje Verhagen, Martine Broekhuizen, Saskia van Schaik, and Pauline Slot

10. What levels the playing field for socioeconomically disadvantaged children in the Norwegian ECEC model?
Henrik D. Zachrisson, Eric Dearing, Sigrid Bloemeke, and Thomas Moser

11. Early childcare, child cognitive outcomes, and inequalities in the United Kingdom
Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga, and Chiara Pronzato

12. Entry to formal childcare and abilities of preschoolers: A comparison of East and West Germany
Jan Skopek

13. Childcare arrangements at preschool age and later child outcomes in Denmark: The role of maternal education and type of care
Susanne Wahler, Sandra Buchholz, and Asta Breinholt

14. Home sweet home? Long-term educational outcomes of childcare arrangements in Finland
Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola, and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen

Part V: Discussion and conclusions
15. Childcare, early education and compensation of educational (dis)advantage - Evidence from a multidisciplinary and international project
Jan Skopek, Nevena Kulic, Moris Triventi, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

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• As estratégias educacionais e políticas
• A discriminação social e desigualdade
• Assistência social e serviços sociais

Childcare; early childhood; early education; social inequality in education; longitudinal studies