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Child care arrangements among low-income families: A qualitative approach An examination of child care arrangements among families in low-income urban neighborhoods, using longitudinal data from interviews with 42 mothers of preschool children in New York City |
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Child Care Arrangements Among Low-Income Families: A Qualitative Approach An analysis of child care arrangements among urban low-income families, using qualitative research methods--including interviews with mothers over a twelve month period, and observations in child care settings--to explore the following questions: (1) What are the strategies working families in low income urban communities adopt for their young children's care and development?; (2) How do different strategies affect the way children spend their time during early childhood?; and (3) What comparisons, if any, can be made in the care offered families with young children in American inner-city communities that differ by racial and ethnic composition, and/or the types of services available in those neighborhoods? The goal is to better understand individual family decisions within the context of the choices available at the community level. |
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Child Care Choices of Low-Income Families with Vulnerabilities This project explores the ways in which low-income, vulnerable families choose child care. The goal is to identify the family characteristics and contextual factors that expand or limit child care choices. The three-year project takes place in several low-income, urban communities participating in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections initiative. The sites are Oakland, Providence, Seattle, and Denver. The focus is on vulnerable families, including families who have children with special needs, parents who are English language learners or immigrants, parents receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and children at risk of maltreatment. The research includes a family study and a community study. The family study includes two rounds of field-based, semi-structured interviews with parents regarding their decision-making processes related to child care. The community study, which takes place between the two rounds of family interviews, includes interviews with key community members regarding the community and policy contexts that affect child care choices. The following research questions are addressed: (1) What factors influence choice of care among low-income working families in a diverse set of urban neighborhoods? How do different families with particular vulnerabilities make child care choices?; (2) How do child care choice processes of parents overall, and particularly families who have special vulnerabilities, interact with several key contextual factors (e.g., job options, local policies and programs)?; and (3) What family characteristics or contextual factors seem to particularly expand or constrain the child care choices of low-income families overall, and the lives of vulnerable families in particular? Which of these seem amenable to policy strategies to support choices for low-income working families, and what should these strategies be? |
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Child care choices of low-income working families A study of low-income parents' child care decisionmaking and the influence of family characteristics and contextual community factors on their decisions, based on interviews with community experts and stakeholders and in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington |
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Conceptual frameworks for child care decision-making An examination of three frameworks for understanding parental child care decisionmaking and an elaboration and development of a fourth framework that integrates elements of the three |
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Determinants of Subsidy Stability and Continuity of Child Care in Illinois and New York Determinants of Subsidy Stability and Continuity of Child Care in Illinois and New York is a research partnership that joins child care researchers at the University of Chicago and the Urban Institute with Illinois and New York state child care administrators and local administrators of subsidies in four regions (two per state). The primary aim of the partnership is to develop an empirically-informed and practically-relevant knowledgebase regarding important determinants of subsidy stability and child care continuity and the linkages between the two. By targeting our study on four regions in two states and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information on parent perceptions and experiences together with administrative program records, our empirical strategy aims to strengthen our understanding of the patterns of subsidy and child care stability over time. In particular, it will allow us to examine how subsidy program characteristics and employment circumstances may operate to encourage or discourage subsidy receipt and subsidy stability; and in turn, how subsidy receipt and stability contribute to child care arrangement continuity. Research questions include: (1) What are the different patterns of subsidy use and stability over time, what are the characteristics of families who demonstrate different subsidy patterns, and how does subsidy use vary with other public program use and with employment patterns; (2) To what extent do subsidy program characteristics and parental work circumstances influence subsidy use and stability and do parental work circumstances moderate the effects of subsidy program characteristics on subsidy use and stability; (3) How stable are child care arrangements for subsidy-receiving families both during a subsidy spell and over time, what are the characteristics of families who have unstable child care arrangements during a subsidy spell and/or over time, what are the characteristics of their child care arrangements, and what is the relationship between subsidy stability and child care arrangement stability; (4) To what extent do subsidy program characteristics and parental work circumstances directly influence the stability of child care arrangements, and are these influences mediated by patterns of subsidy use; (5) What challenges to subsidy stability and child care stability do parents perceive to be most difficult, are there subsidy program characteristics that parents perceive as promoting or hindering subsidy stability, child care options, and child care arrangement stability, how do parents perceive the directionality of influence between subsidy stability and child care arrangement stability; and (6) What challenges to subsidy stability and child care stability are particularly salient for parents with non-traditional jobs and/or nonstandard work schedules, TANF families, immigrant families/non-English speaking parents, families with multiple children and school-aged children needing care, and what are the strategies for obtaining stability that these parents develop in their efforts to deal with the challenges they identify |
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How contextual constraints affect low-income working parents' child care choices Findings from a study of low-income parents' child care decisionmaking that examine parents' views on the supply of child care options in their communities, sources of information about their options, and barriers to access, based on in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington |
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How employment constraints affect low-income working parents' child care decisions Findings from a study of low income parents' child care decisionmaking that examines parents' employment contexts and the role of employment in their child care choices, based on in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington |
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Putting children first: How low-wage working mothers manage child care A qualitative study of the child care arrangements of 42 low income single working mothers in New York City, based on interviews and observations collected over three years in the period following passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) OF 1996 |
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[Review of the book The child care problem: An economic analysis and of the book Lone parent, employment and social policy: Cross national comparisons] A review of an economic analysis for understanding parents’ behavior, providers’ behavior, and the links between prices and quantities and qualities of child care |
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'You have to choose your childcare to fit your work': Childcare decision-making among low-income working families Findings from a three-year study of child care preferences among low income working families and the factors that can influence their child care decisions, including parental employment contexts, early care and education supply, and related program policies, based on data from 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and White Center/Seattle, Washington |
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