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Who uses child care subsidies?: Comparing recipients to eligible non-recipients on family background characteristics and child care preferences A study of predictors of subsidy receipt among eligible families and a second study that compares subsidy recipients' to eligible non-recipients' use of Head Start, public pre-kindergarten, or subsidized care, based on data from a nationally representative longitudinal sample of preschoolers |
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Impacts of Early Head Start participation on child and parent outcomes at ages 2, 3, and 5 A study of the impact of Early Head Start on child and family outcomes, including children's socioemotional and cognitive development and families' well-being and home environments, and an examination of the age at which program impacts appear and of mediators of impacts at age 5, based on data for randomly-assigned low income families collected when children were 2, 3, and 5 years old |
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What makes a difference?: Early Head Start evaluation findings in a developmental context [Special issue] A special issue of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development focusing on the impacts of Early Head Start on child and family outcomes, including children's socioemotional and cognitive development and families' well-being and home environments, based on data for 3,001 randomly-assigned low income families |
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Conclusions and implications A summary and discussion of implications from a special issue of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development focusing on the impacts of Early Head Start on child and family outcomes, including children's socioemotional and cognitive development and families' well-being and home environments, based on data for 3,001 randomly-assigned low income families |
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Background literature review pertaining to the Early Head Start study An overview of the Early Head Start program model and of the relationship of early childhood program participation to children's school readiness outcomes |
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Patterns of Child Care Subsidy Use in New York City: Care Arrangements, Parental Preferences, and Subsidy Administration Policies The goal of this project is to examine associations among parental preferences for child care, parents' perceptions of care quality, subsidy policies, and the care arrangements that low-income working families in New York City use for their young children. The project relies on two data sources: (1) New York City administrative data on the entire population of subsidy recipients with children age 6 and younger to describe families' child care arrangements; and (2) a phone survey with a random sample of 2,250 families drawn from the administrative data file. The survey asks parents about their reasons for selecting each of their care arrangements, their level of satisfaction with the care they use, the dimensions of care that they perceive as most important, their work/family balance, and their experiences with the subsidy administration system. Using these data, the project attends to four sets of research questions: (1) What are the dynamics of subsidy use? What is the duration of subsidy use?; (2) Is there a mismatch between parents' stated preferences for child care, and the care that they actually use? What are the policy barriers that potentially prevent families from accessing the care that they prefer? Are there specific barriers faced by families who receive vouchers (as opposed to those who receive care in a contracted setting) that affect their use of formal care?; (3) Are parental preferences for child care differentially associated with the use of formal versus informal care? How are parental perceptions of child care quality and parental work characteristics associated with the use of formal or informal care?; and (4) Does the continuity of care depend on whether the care is informal or formal? |
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Child Care Subsidies: Who Uses Them and What Do They Buy Low-Income Families and Children? This study uses data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) to: (1) determine whether eligible recipients of child care subsidies differ from the eligible non-recipients of child care subsidies on child and family characteristics and parental preferences for child care; (2) examine whether subsidy receipt in preschool leads parents to purchase higher-quality child care than they could have afforded without the subsidy; and (3) test whether subsidy receipt in preschool is associated with better school readiness in kindergarten. Expanding on prior work, this study identifies eligible non-recipients of child care subsidies who resemble subsidy recipients not only on observable demographic characteristics but also on variables that are harder to measure, like parental preferences for specific features of child care. Subsidy recipients are compared to eligible non-recipients on family and child characteristics and parental preference variables. Then, a propensity score matching technique is used to estimate the causal effect of subsidy use in preschool on the quality of preschool care children experience. Finally, state-fixed effects regressions with a lagged dependent variable are employed to test whether subsidy use in preschool is associated with children’s school readiness in kindergarten. If such an association exists, the possibility that preschool child care quality mediates this link is explored. In all analyses, children who receive subsidies are compared to children who are eligible for subsidies but who instead use either Head Start, or public pre-kindergarten, or unsubsidized care. |
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Latino American Children and School Readiness: The Role of Early Care Arrangements and Caregiver Language The number of Latino children in the United States is steadily increasing. This demographic transformation presents several challenges for the United States, one of which is meeting the diverse educational needs of Latino children. This challenge is great; evidence from one national sample of kindergarten students estimates that by kindergarten the Latino-White achievement gaps are as large as 0.77 standard in math and 0.52 standard deviations in reading. Previous research indicates that high quality, center-based child care may help reduce these disparities. This dissertation aims to extend on this literature, using a nationally representative sample of Latino American children, to: (1) investigate selection processes into different care arrangements at 2- and 4-years of age; (2) estimate the impact of these different care arrangements on Latino American children's math, literacy and approaches to learning outcomes in the fall of kindergarten; and (3) examine whether these associations differ by the language spoken in the home, the language spoken by the child's care provider, or match between the two. Research questions include: (1) What factors predict Latino American children's enrollment into different care arrangements at 2-years (center-based care, parental care, or other home-based care) and 4-years (Head Start, pre-kindergarten, other center-based care, parental care, or other home-based care)?; (2) What are the associations between these care arrangements and Latino children's math, literacy, and approaches to learning scores in the fall of kindergarten?; and (3) Are there differential treatment effects depending on the language: (a) of the care provider?; (b) of the home?; (c) the match between home and care provider? |
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Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Vol. I. Final technical report A report of the findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income families across the US |
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Child-care subsidies: Do they impact the quality of care children experience? A comparison of subsidy recipient low-income children's care quality relative to socioeconomically comparable, subsidy-eligible non-recipients quality of child care, based data from 750 4-year-olds from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, Preschool data |
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Child-care subsidies and school readiness in kindergarten A study of associations between child care subsidy receipt when children are 4 years old and a range of academic and socioemotional school readiness outcomes in kindergarten, including reading and mathematics ability, externalizing and prosocial behavior, and approaches to learning, based on data from 1,400 children from subsidy-eligible families participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort |
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The duration and dynamics of child care subsidy use in New York City: Children aged 6-13 A summary of a study of the duration of, number of, and gaps between subsidy spells of children aged six through 13 in New York City from January 2006 through December 2008 |
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The duration and dynamics of child care subsidy use in New York City: Children aged 0-5 A summary of a study of the duration of, number of, and gaps between subsidy spells of children from birth through age five in New York City from January 2006 through December 2008 |
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Child care preferences and satisfaction: An examination of New York City subsidy recipients Highlights of an exploration of the selection of and satisfaction with child care arrangements by New York City parents who receive child care subsidies |
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Experiences with child care subsidy application and recertification in New York City A summary of a study of parents' experiences with child care subsidy application and recertification, the characteristics of parents who reported problems with application and recertification, and the relationship of problems to subsidy stability, based on a survey of approximately 2,000 families who received child care subsidies in February 2008 in New York City and administrative data linked to survey respondents |
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Neighborhood characteristics and child care type and quality A study of the association between the social and demographic characteristics of neighborhoods and neighborhood-level child care choice and quality, based on a sample of 80 Chicago neighborhoods |
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Understanding State Early Childhood Education Policy Choices An empirical assessment of the effects of states' political and economic contexts on a range of state policy choices, using a time-series methodology which pools data on all 50 states over the last decade. Specific considerations include: the role of political values (e.g., ideology, normative nature of child care); institutional structure (e.g., legislative professionalism, strength of the governor); state-level political actors (e.g., support from the governor, proportion of female legislators); economic resources (e.g., tax effort, economic conditions); and the timing of national political developments (e.g., welfare reform). The study provides insight into the strengths and limitations of federal devolution, which will be directly applicable to federal policy debates over the use of block grant programs (e.g., Child Care Development Fund, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to provide needed child care assistance for low-income families working toward economic self-sufficiency. |
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Early childhood education: The likelihood of sustained effects An overview of research on the effects of several early education programs on the cognitive, socioemotional, and academic skills of children in the elementary school years |
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The Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory: The derivation of conceptually designed subscales An overview of a special journal issue devoted to assessing the derivation, validity, and reliability of the subscales of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME)Inventory, using six large, nationally-representative datasets |
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The homelife interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of parenting and home environment for 3- to 15-year-olds A description of the development of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Homelife Interview using aspects of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment inventory |
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Infant Assessment Unit, Wave 1, 1995-1997 A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development specifically focusing on the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors such as the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence and the environments in which these social behaviors took place. |
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Master File, Wave 1, 1994-1997 A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development specifically focusing on the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors such as the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence and the environments in which these social behaviors took place. |
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Demographic File, Wave 1, 1994-1997 A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development specifically focusing on the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors such as the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence and the environments in which these social behaviors took place. |
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Child Behavior Checklist, Wave 1, 1994-1997 A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development specifically focusing on the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors such as the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence and the environments in which these social behaviors took place. |
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Conflict Tactics Scale for Partner and Spouse, Wave 1, 1994-1997 A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development specifically focusing on the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors such as the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence and the environments in which these social behaviors took place. |
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