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Accessing and affording child care and low-income mothers' employment over time: An ecological approach
Shjegstad, Brinn , 2009

A study of the influence of child problem behaviors and maternal risk factors on low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, an examination of family income as a mediator of the relationships between child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors and low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, and an examination of the relationships between low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care and family income, child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors, and ability to obtain and maintain employment

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Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development?
Coley, Rebekah L.; Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran , January, 2013

An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform

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Child care in the era of welfare reform: Quality, choices, and preferences
Coley, Rebekah L.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Li-Grining, Christine P.; , 2001

An examination of the child care experiences of low income families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio, and a discussion of the types of child care settings used to meet needs and preferences of families

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Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well-being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low-income neighborhoods
Bachman, Heather J.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; , 2005

A study of the implications of custodial grandparent care by comparing the material hardship, mental health, and physical well-being of custodial grandmothers and biological mothers using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study

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Low-income families' selection of child care for their young children
Tang, Sandra; Coley, Rebekah L.; Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth; , October, 2012

An assessment of the relationship between child care type experienced by low income urban preschoolers and child characteristics, mother characteristics, city of residence, mother's psychological resources, and child care preferences, based on data from 802 children drawn from the first and second waves of the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform

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