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Title: Does Policy Affect Outcomes for Young Children? An Analysis with International Microdata
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Phipps, Shelley |
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Does Policy Affect Outcomes for Young Children? An Analysis with International Microdata Working Paper W-00-1E, Applied Research Branch Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada, Hull, Quebec, August 1999. Also: http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/cs/sp/sdc/pkrf/publications/research/1999-000166/w-00-1e.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Human Resources Development Canada Keyword(s): Behavior; Canada, Canadian; Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Child Health; Children, Well-Being; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Cross-national Analysis; Depression (see also CESD); Household Composition; Injuries; Mothers, Education; Norway, Norwegian; Obesity; Parents, Single; Poverty; Regions; Siblings; State Welfare; Statistics Norway Health Survey; Weight; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the hypothesis that outcomes for young children are influenced both by micro-level socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., family structure, age/gender of the child) and also by general macroeconomic conditions (e.g., the regional unemployment rate); social context (e.g., percentage of the population who are immigrants); and, centrally, by social policy (e.g., social spending per capita). In order to investigate this hypothesis, the study pools microdata from three countries (the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth; the Mother-Child component of the United States National Survey of Youth and the Statistics Norway Health Survey), as well as exploiting variation which exists across regions within Canada and the U.S. The three countries chosen for the analysis are similarly affluent, but have in place quite different programmes for children. For example, social spending is much higher in Norway than in Canada, though social spending is higher in Canada than in the U.S. A larger proportion of healthcare is publicly funded in Norway than in Canada, though a much higher proportion of healthcare is publicly funded in Canada than in the U.S. Unemployment rates are much the highest in Canada, as are levels of immigration. There is also significant variation in these measures across regions within Canada or the U.S. Results provide support for the hypothesis that policy matters for children in ways which cannot entirely be captured through standard micro-level variables. However, it is hard to pin down their associations. |
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Phipps, Shelley. "Does Policy Affect Outcomes for Young Children? An Analysis with International Microdata." Working Paper W-00-1E, Applied Research Branch Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada, Hull, Quebec, August 1999. |