The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya

About 20,000 early childhood development centers provided day care for and prepared for primary school more than 1 million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care facilities reached 23,690 by the end of 1999. The auth...

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Main Authors:	Lokshin, Michael M., Glinskaya, Elena, Garcia, Marito
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	account age groups Basic Education care centers child care child care costs child care facilities child development child feeding churches curriculum day care day care centers day care facilities delinquency dropout rates early child development early childhood early childhood development early childhood development programs early education ECD ECD programs enrollment gender girls Human Development interventions older children older girls older siblings parents participation rates preschool education preschool facilities preschool programs preschool teachers preschools primary education primary school rural areas school attendance single mothers special education subsidized child care teaching unemployment urban centers wages working mothers young children younger children younger siblings labor supply school enrollment women employment girls' education wage increases
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spelling	okr-10986-214412021-04-23T14:04:02Z The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya Lokshin, Michael M. Glinskaya, Elena Garcia, Marito account age groups Basic Education care centers child care child care costs child care facilities child development child feeding churches curriculum day care day care centers day care facilities delinquency dropout rates early child development early childhood early childhood development early childhood development programs early education ECD ECD programs enrollment gender girls Human Development interventions older children older girls older siblings parents participation rates preschool education preschool facilities preschool programs preschool teachers preschools primary education primary school rural areas school attendance single mothers special education subsidized child care teaching unemployment urban centers wages working mothers young children younger children younger siblings early childhood development labor supply school enrollment women employment day care child care costs girls' education wage increases About 20,000 early childhood development centers provided day care for and prepared for primary school more than 1 million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care facilities reached 23,690 by the end of 1999. The authors analyze the effect of child care costs on households' behavior in Kenya. For households with children aged three to seven, they model household demand for mothers' participation in paid work, the participation in paid work of other household members, household demand for schooling, and household demand for child care. They find that: A) A high cost for child care discourages households from using formal child care facilities and has a negative effect on mothers' participation in market work. B) The cost of child care and the level of mothers' wages affect older children's school enrollment, but these factors affect boys' and girls' schooling differently. An increase in mothers' wages increases boys' enrollment but depresses girls' enrollment. C) Higher child care costs have no significant effect on boys' schooling but significantly decrease the number of girls in school. 2015-02-13T18:31:54Z 2015-02-13T18:31:54Z 2000-06 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21441 en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2376 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Kenya
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topic	account age groups Basic Education care centers child care child care costs child care facilities child development child feeding churches curriculum day care day care centers day care facilities delinquency dropout rates early child development early childhood early childhood development early childhood development programs early education ECD ECD programs enrollment gender girls Human Development interventions older children older girls older siblings parents participation rates preschool education preschool facilities preschool programs preschool teachers preschools primary education primary school rural areas school attendance single mothers special education subsidized child care teaching unemployment urban centers wages working mothers young children younger children younger siblings early childhood development labor supply school enrollment women employment day care child care costs girls' education wage increases
spellingShingle	account age groups Basic Education care centers child care child care costs child care facilities child development child feeding churches curriculum day care day care centers day care facilities delinquency dropout rates early child development early childhood early childhood development early childhood development programs early education ECD ECD programs enrollment gender girls Human Development interventions older children older girls older siblings parents participation rates preschool education preschool facilities preschool programs preschool teachers preschools primary education primary school rural areas school attendance single mothers special education subsidized child care teaching unemployment urban centers wages working mothers young children younger children younger siblings early childhood development labor supply school enrollment women employment day care child care costs girls' education wage increases Lokshin, Michael M. Glinskaya, Elena Garcia, Marito The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
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description	About 20,000 early childhood development centers provided day care for and prepared for primary school more than 1 million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care facilities reached 23,690 by the end of 1999. The authors analyze the effect of child care costs on households' behavior in Kenya. For households with children aged three to seven, they model household demand for mothers' participation in paid work, the participation in paid work of other household members, household demand for schooling, and household demand for child care. They find that: A) A high cost for child care discourages households from using formal child care facilities and has a negative effect on mothers' participation in market work. B) The cost of child care and the level of mothers' wages affect older children's school enrollment, but these factors affect boys' and girls' schooling differently. An increase in mothers' wages increases boys' enrollment but depresses girls' enrollment. C) Higher child care costs have no significant effect on boys' schooling but significantly decrease the number of girls in school.
format	Publications & Research
author	Lokshin, Michael M. Glinskaya, Elena Garcia, Marito
author_facet	Lokshin, Michael M. Glinskaya, Elena Garcia, Marito
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title	The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
title_short	The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
title_full	The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
title_fullStr	The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya
title_sort	effect of early childhood development programs on women's labor force participation and older children's schooling in kenya
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The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programs on Women's Labor Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya

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