Negative Effect of Day Care on Children from Affluent Families

There have been quite a few studies highlighting different effects day care has on children from wealthy and poor families. Here is another: http://econ.sciences-po.fr/sites/default/files/file/melissa/fort_ichino_zanella_rev1.pdf

...one additional daycare month at age 0–2 reduces IQ by 0.5% (4.7% of a s.d.) at age 8–14 in a relatively affluent population. The magnitude of this negative effect increases with family income. Similar negative impacts are found for personality traits. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis from psychology that children in daycare experience fewer one-to-one interactions with adults, with negative effects in families where such interactions are of higher quality.

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 03:16PM by ineedmoresleep http://bit.ly/2Z1wWLo