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标题：Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness
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作者：Taryn W. Morrissey ; Scott W. Allard ; Elizabeth Pelletier 等
期刊名称：RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2377-8253
电子版ISSN：2377-8261
出版年度：2022
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：100-123
DOI：10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.04
语种：English
出版社：Russell Sage Foundation
摘要：This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010–2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children’s early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children’s outcomes.
关键词：early care and education;early childhood education;school readiness;nonprofit;Head Start;rural;county;poverty