Universal Childcare and Longer-Run Effects on Parental Health and Behaviors: Evidence from a Canadian Universal Child Care Program

Arbeitspapier

In this paper, we study the long-run impact of a universal child care policy in Quebec on parental health and parenting practices. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Child and Youth, we follow treated families for more than 9 years and investigate the impact well beyond the first few years of the policy. A non-experimental evaluation framework based on multiple pre- and post-treatment periods is used to estimate the policy effects. We show that the policy increased mothers' depression scores with preschool children as well as scores of inappropriate parenting behavior. The policy increased hostile and aversive parenting and reduced positive interaction and consistent parenting. However, negative effects of the program on parental behaviors vanish when the child is in school. Moreover, we find that this pattern persists even ten years after the implementation of the reform.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Research Group on Human Capital - Working Paper Series ; No. 15-04

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General
• Thema: universal child care ; parental health and behaviors ; longer-run effects ; child care policy ; natural experiment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lebihan, Laetitia ; Haeck, Catherine ; Lefebvre, Pierre ; Merrigan, Philip
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain (GRCH)
• (wo): Montréal
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/209562
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ