SubsidieMeestersComplex Contagion of Childcare Strategies amongst Low-Income Parents
This project investigates how formal childcare usage diffuses among low-income households by analyzing social networks and barriers, aiming to reframe childcare strategies and reduce inequalities.
Projectdetails
Background
High quality childcare greatly improves outcomes in later life. Yet childcare access and usage are distributed unevenly, leading to amplified inequalities in later life outcomes. Parents from low-income households are 50% less likely to use formal childcare services than high-income households and use them when the child is older and less intensely.
Research has shown that cost, location, and quality of childcare affect usage, yet policy solutions aimed at removing these barriers have not reduced inequalities in usage.
Aim
In this project, sociological, economic, demographic, and social policy perspectives are synthesized within a framework of complex contagions to investigate how the use of formal childcare diffuses across low-income populations, with the aim of identifying barriers to uptake in formal childcare.
Approach
This project breaks through the state of the art to more clearly describe why some childcare strategies that use formal childcare don't spread to low-income households.
With a complex contagion, people only adopt a new behaviour if they are repeatedly exposed to it from multiple, diverse actors in their network. Low-income households have personal networks with long weak ties and high, multi-layer clustering, which make adopting new childcare strategies unlikely.
This project therefore examines how the childcare strategies present in work, family, and neighbourhood networks influence the childcare strategies of low-income households.
Innovation & Impact
The analysis will draw on unprecedented, linked administrative and survey data to study the diffusion of childcare strategies.
Network data are used in combination with multichannel sequence analysis and other longitudinal methods to identify the role of networks in shaping childcare strategies. The project will completely reframe our understanding of not only childcare strategies but also parallel areas of social policy and the wider study of behaviour diffusion.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.470.130 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.470.130 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-7-2022 |
| Einddatum | 30-6-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAMpenvoerder
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