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The problem
Intervention: Government childcare subsidies covering a portion of center-based or in-home childcare expenses
Who it was tested with: 1,987 income-eligible mothers in intimate relationships at year 3 when children were approximately 3 years old, from 20 large American cities.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Path analysis with a latent dependent variable found that receipt of a childcare subsidy was associated with a significant decrease in IPV victimization (β = -.18, p < .05), controlling for a number of maternal and household characteristics." The study uses longitudinal cohort data with statistical controls to examine the association between subsidy receipt and violence outcomes, representing a quasi-experimental approach.
Observational design limits causal inference; sample restricted to income-eligible mothers in relationships, potentially excluding those who left relationships due to violence; unmeasured confounders may affect results
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
