Effects of Maternal Work, Day Care Use and Other Investments in Children on Child Cognitive Outcomes

母亲工作、日托使用和其他儿童投资对儿童认知结果的影响

• 批准号: DP0774247
• 负责人: Prof Michael Keane
• 金额: $ 23.94万
• 依托单位: University of Technology Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0774247
• 关键词: Effects; Maternal; Work; Day; Care

Later life outcomes due to investments by individuals and/or society in children is crucial to many countries, including Australia. Appropriate policy responses require reliable and valid estimates of the likely effects of individual investments and policy interventions. Despite many research reports on this topic, almost all do not control for selection bias (eg, high achieving mothers tend to put children in day care), which is a feature of our work. Thus, our empirical results will have major policy implications, and will suggest ways to obtain similar results for Australian environments.

个人和/或社会对儿童的投资所带来的晚年生活成果对于包括澳大利亚在内的许多国家至关重要。适当的政策反应需要对个人投资和政策干预的可能影响进行可靠和有效的估计。尽管有很多关于这个主题的研究报告，但几乎所有报告都没有控制选择偏差（例如，成绩优异的母亲倾向于将孩子送入日托中心），这是我们工作的一个特点。因此，我们的实证结果将产生重大的政策影响，并将提出为澳大利亚环境获得类似结果的方法。