Episode 81: 081 The SCC Pod - True or False: Long days in Daycare is Harmful to Young Children

Professor Henrik Zachrisson talks to us about his important research studying the outcome of children who spend long days in daycare. References:Dearing E & Zachrisson H (2017). Concerns over internal, external, and incidence validity i studies of child-care quantity and externalizing behavior problems, Child Developmental Perspectives, 11(2):133-138.Dearing E, Zachrisson H et al (2018). Estimating the consequences of Norway’s national scale-up of childhood education and care (beginning in infancy) for early language skills, AERA Open, 18(1):1-16.Ribiero L & Zachrisson H (2019). Peer effects on aggressive behavior in Norwegian child care centers, Child Development, 90(3):876-893.Zachrisson et al (2013). Little evidence that time in child care causes externalizing problems during early childhood in Norway, Child Development, 84(4):1152-1170.