Find resources that use the NSECE data to explore research questions relevant to the child care and early education field
Key findings about factors that influence families’ search for child care and early education (CCEE) are drawn from secondary analyses of the National Survey of Early Care and Education Household Survey and from a study about information states provide about CCEE on consumer education websites.…
This dissertation project is a three-phase mixed methods study aimed at understanding how early care and education centers make decisions about subsidy system participation, paying close attention to the influence of state policies and other factors amenable to policy intervention. Phase I is a…
Using multiple datasets on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age six, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher SES children spend less time with their…
The 2021 National Workforce Registry Alliance (NWRA) dataset consists of data from 14 of 17 eligible registries: Arizona; Connecticut; Miami-Dade (Florida); Illinois; Maine; Minnesota; Missouri; Montana; Nevada; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. These PER (Partners in…
We build a unified view of children’s care experiences across all types of care to generate new insights into differences in early care experiences between children from families of different socioeconomic status. Our primary finding is that, accounting for both parental and nonparental care,…
Our objective in this Data Point is to analyze health insurance coverage rates among early care and education (ECE) workers (those serving young children birth to age five) compared to the general population and other educators (elementary school teachers, high school teachers, and post-…
Given an increasing number of young children now attend non-parental early care and education (ECE) programs, more policy and research attention has been paid to understanding how parents make ECE decisions. Parents make child care decisions based on their perceptions of different ECE types. The…
In this paper, I study the aggregate impacts of family policies in a heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model. Relative to previous studies on family policies, this paper is the first to combine the quantity-quality trade-off, an endogenous demographic structure, and childcare choices…
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children’s care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children…
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children’s care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children…