In the research reported here, we examined these and related questions, exploring both the expansion in preschool attendance and its consequences, especially for disadvantaged children, and the effects of the increased outlays on early childhood education and child care over the 1990s. We drew on enrollment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the newly available Early Childhood Lo...

A substantial body of literature suggests that maternal employment stimulates child obesity. This study re-examines the existing relations and explores the role of alternative care on health status of working women’s children using Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). Categorizing child care as relative, non-family, and kindergarten care, I investigate how each type of child care generates di...

Increasing evidence suggests that aspects of children’s learning-related social skills (including interpersonal skills and work-related skills) contribute to early school performance. The present investigation examined the association of work-related skills to academic outcomes at the beginning of kindergarten and at the end of second grade as well as characteristics of children with low workre...

Two hundred and nine children receiving early childhood special education services for developmental disabilities or delays who also had behavioral, social, or attentional difficulties were included in a study of an intervention to increase school readiness, including early literacy skills. Results showed that the intervention had a significant positive effect on children's literacy skills from...

Aggressive and prosocial children's emotion attributions and moral reasoning were investigated. Participants were 235 kindergarten children (M=6.2 years) and 136 elementary-school children (M=7.6 years) who were selected as aggressive or prosocial based on (kindergarten) teacher ratings. The children were asked to evaluate hypothetical rule violations, attribute emotions they would feel in the ...

Aim. To measure the association between infant feeding practices and parent-reported nut allergy in school entrant children. Method. The Kindergarten Health Check Questionnaire was delivered to all 110 Australian Capital Territory (ACT) primary schools between 2006 and 2009. Retrospective analyses were undertaken of the data collected from the kindergarten population. Results. Of 15142 children...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between children's overweight status in kindergarten and their academic achievement in kindergarten and first grade. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES The data analyzed consisted of 11,192 first time kindergartners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative sample of kindergartners in the U.S. in 1998. Multivariate regression te...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between early impulsive behavior, rated by kindergarten teachers, and self-reported gambling in sixth grade. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal study. SETTING The 1999 kindergarten cohort of the Montreal Longitudinal Preschool Study in Canada. PARTICIPANTS Written parental consent was obtained for 181 of the 377 children from intact families at kindergar...

Soybean products are healthy and an important source of vegetable protein in Japan. This study examines the effects of using soybean products at home and decreasing children’s dislike of soybean products. A quasiexperimental pre-post-test design was utilised to examine the effect of using school lunch programs to assess the consumption of soybean products. The study’s participants included 309 ...

Adults and children seem to essentialize certain social categories. Three studies investigated whether, and how, exposure to ethnic diversity affects this bias. Participants were 516 kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade Israeli Jewish and Arab children attending regular (mono-cultural) or integrated schools. Study 1 revealed that exposure increased the salience of ethnicity, especially for Je...