title: Child care in infancy and cognitive performance until middle childhood in the millennium cohort study.
abstract: This study used a British cohort (n = ∼13,000) to investigate the association between child care during infancy and later cognition while controlling for social selection and missing data. It was found that attending child care (informal or center based) at 9 months was positively associated with cognitive outcomes at age 3 years, but only for children of mothers with low education. These effects did not persist to ages 5 or 7 years. Early center-based care was associated with better cognitive outcomes than informal care at ages 3 and 5 years, but not at 7 years. Effect sizes were larger among children whose mother had low education. Propensity score matching and multiple imputation revealed significant findings undetected using regression and complete-case approaches.
authors: University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J7, Canada. sylvana.cote@gmail.com
authors: Sylvana M
authors: SM
authors: Côté
authors: Orla
authors: O
authors: Doyle
authors: Amélie
authors: A
authors: Petitclerc
authors: Lori
authors: L
authors: Timmins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002656:Child Day Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D009035:Mothers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015983:Selection Bias; D012923:Social Class; D006113:United Kingdom