High-quality childcare services are vital to children's development and family wellbeing but are not equitably accessed by all children. In the United States, programs supported by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) have the potential to reduce these inequities. Economically eligible Black children use CCDF-supported services at higher rates than other children, but less is known about disparities in the characteristics of those services. This study uses weekly subsidy records from Georgia's Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program to examine racial, ethnic, and geographic differences in the types, modes, quality, proximity, and stability of care and in subsidy payments, co-payments, and subsidy use. The study distinguishes between unconditional differences that it observes in children's experiences and conditional disparities that it estimates after accounting for children's needs and other characteristics. It interprets the conditional disparities as evidence of inequity. The analysis uncovers many unconditional racial and ethnic differences in subsidized care outcomes and several geographic differences. However, the study finds fewer (and mostly smaller) conditional differences, including very few conditional differences between non-Hispanic Black and White children. The results suggest that there is substantial racial equity in participating children's use of CAPS services.

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格鲁吉亚公平使用补贴托儿服务


高质量的托儿服务对儿童的成长和家庭福祉至关重要，但并非所有儿童都能公平地获得。在美国，儿童保育和发展基金 （CCDF） 支持的计划有可能减少这些不平等。经济上符合条件的黑人儿童使用 CCDF 支持的服务的比例高于其他儿童，但人们对这些服务特性的差异知之甚少。本研究使用佐治亚州儿童保育和家长服务 （CAPS） 计划的每周补贴记录来检查护理的类型、模式、质量、接近性和稳定性以及补贴支付、共付额和补贴使用方面的种族、民族和地理差异。该研究区分了它在儿童经历中观察到的无条件差异和它在考虑了儿童需求和其他特征后估计的条件差异。它将条件差异解释为不平等的证据。该分析揭示了补贴护理结果中的许多无条件的种族和民族差异以及一些地理差异。然而，该研究发现条件差异较少（而且大多较小），包括非西班牙裔黑人和白人儿童之间的条件差异非常小。结果表明，参与儿童使用 CAPS 服务存在很大的种族平等。