Kathleen McCartney|Eric Dearing|Beck A. Taylor|Kristen L. Bub
Quality child care supports the achievement of low-income children: Direct and indirect pathways through caregiving and the home environment
Harvard University|Boston College|Samford University|Harvard University
existing studies child care able determine whether higher quality child care protects children effects poverty whether poverty lower quality child care operate dual risk factors whether true objective current study test two pathways child care may serve naturally occurring intervention lowincome children direct pathway child care quality child outcomes indirect pathway improvements home environment children observed homes child care settings 6 15 24 36 months interaction family incometoneeds ratio child care quality predicted school readiness receptive language expressive language well improvements home environment children lowincome families profited observed learning supports form sensitive care stimulation cognitive development parents profited unobserved informal formal parent supports policy implications discussed