Taryn W Morrissey, Scott W Allard, Elizabeth Pelletier
{"title":"Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children's School Readiness.","authors":"Taryn W Morrissey, Scott W Allard, Elizabeth Pelletier","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04","DOIUrl":"10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children's early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children's outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"8 3","pages":"100-123"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d3/86/nihms-1868649.PMC10575474.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41240805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas
{"title":"Evaluating Employment Quality as a Determinant of Health in a Changing Labor Market.","authors":"Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","DOIUrl":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The shifting nature of employment in recent decades has not been adequately examined from a public health perspective. To that end, traditional models of work and health research need to be expanded to include the relational and contractual aspects of employment that also affect health. We examine the association of three health outcomes with different types of employment in the contemporary U.S. labor market, as measured by a multidimensional construct of employment quality (EQ) derived from latent class analysis. We find that EQ is associated with self-rated health, mental health, and occupational injury. Further, we explore three proposed mediating mechanisms of the EQ-health relationship (material deprivation, employment-related stressors, and occupational risk factors), and find each to be supported by these data.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 4","pages":"258-281"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41219825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}