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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This blog post is full of editorializing by the author (who is it by the way? I've never been able to find an actual name.) If you look at the actual studies cited, you get a very different picture of "the science" compared with what the author describes. The author also fails to explain that these studies are largely observational, and unobserved variables are likely to influence the results quite a bit. If you look at actual literature reviews of this subject they are much more clear - so many other factors matter so much more than whether you send your child to daycare.[/quote]
This was a very rigorous study comparing Quebec kids before and after subsidized daycare so all those variables are removed

We evaluate the long-term effects of the Canadian province of Quebec $5 per day universal childcare policy on child and youth well-being (health, behavior, motor and social development). Treated children are followed for more than 19 years. Estimates based on a nonexperimental evaluation framework show that the negative effects on preschoolers documented in previous studies persist over time for most outcomes. Once children enter school, only the impact on emotional disorder and anxiety persists, but the magnitude is smaller than for preschool children. For teens, aged 12 to 19 years old, our estimates do not suggest that the effects persist.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/209560/1/WP15-02.pdf[/quote]

I am going to guess that Quebecois government funded daycare was not particularly high quality, and as the blog post OP linked to says, high quality daycare does not have such outcomes.[/quote]

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