IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/osfxxx/w2ey7_v1.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Investigating how administrative burden and search costs affect social inequalities in early childcare access, a randomised controlled trial

Author

Listed:
  • Carbuccia, Laudine

    (Sciences Po & Ecole Normale Supérieure)

  • Heim, Arthur
  • Barone, Carlo
  • Chevallier, Coralie

Abstract

Access to high-quality early childcare for low socioeconomic status (SES) households has the potential to mitigate socioeconomic inequalities. Yet, there is an SES-based gap in early childcare enrolment. While low-SES households would benefit the most from attending early childcare, they access early childcare the least. This study tackles cognitive and behavioural barriers behind this access gap. We test the effectiveness of informational interventions and personalised support to enhance early childcare application and access for low-SES households through a multi-arm experiment. Results reveal that the information-only treatment had minimal impact while adding personalised support significantly bridged the SES-gap in early childcare applications. However, despite large impacts on application rates, we found limited impacts on access rates for low-SES households. By identifying key obstacles to early childcare access for low-SES households, our research underscores the need for effective strategies to promote equal opportunities in early childhood education.

Suggested Citation

  • Carbuccia, Laudine & Heim, Arthur & Barone, Carlo & Chevallier, Coralie, 2024. "Investigating how administrative burden and search costs affect social inequalities in early childcare access, a randomised controlled trial," OSF Preprints w2ey7_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:w2ey7_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/w2ey7_v1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://osf.io/download/6744676191272c5a3cfb518f/
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.31219/osf.io/w2ey7_v1?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:w2ey7_v1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: OSF (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://osf.io/preprints/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.