Adrienne Davidson
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What Do Parents Want In Terms Of Early Childhood Education And Care?
In the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, it is important to understand parents’ decision-making in terms of both...
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Material Circumstances and Pandemic-Related Education Choices
Parents have faced difficult decisions regarding their children’s educational plans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the findings of an...
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Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice
Many children in Canada and the United States experience poor-quality child care on a regular basis. Under the rubric of “parent choice,”...
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Child care policy and child care burden
The policy feedback literature highlights that the design of public policies can affect recipients’ experience of those policies and programs. In...
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The Role of Reflexive Learning in Universal Pre-kindergarten (UPK) Policy Formulation in Canada and the USA
Building on theories of social learning and policy change, this article argues that reflexive learning provides a causal mechanism for how public...
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Are Citizens Responsive to the Regulatory State? The Effect of Regulation on Evaluations of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
Public service delivery has increasingly involved mixed markets, with for-profit, not-for-profit, and government-delivered pro-grams. In such...
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Policy Design, Instrument Choice, and Policy Feedback Effects of Institutional Business Power: Child Care Investments in Australia, Canada, and Germany
Recent research examining the policy feedback effects of delegated governance note that private actors accumulate institutional business...
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Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis
Inequalities that emerged during COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to examine parent constraints in their decision-making around work and early...
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Information effects on parental choices for early childhood education and care
Existing research demonstrates that parents are poorly informed consumers of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Choosing such...
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