CHILD CARE SCHOLARS

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The proposed research aims to elucidate relations between children's physical health, early childhood education, family resources, and school readiness. Data will be drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort), which followed a representative sample of approximately 10,700 children born in the United States in 2001 from infancy through kindergarten. Research questions ask: 1) Do physical health problems directly predict school readiness competencies? 2) Does restricting development-promoting opportunities in ECE among children in poor health indirectly explain the associations between health problems and school readiness? 3) Does participation in ECE temper or exacerbate the negative associations between children's physical health problems and school readiness, such that ECE serves to protect or further disadvantage children in poor health? 4) Does family income have protective or aggravating effects for associations explored in Questions 1 through 3? Research questions will be addressed using OLS and logistic regressions as well as propensity score analysis methods to explore direct, mediated, and moderated relations between children's physical health and their school readiness.