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New Hope for people with low incomes: Two-year results of a program to reduce poverty and reform welfare: Executive summary
Bos, Johannes M., 1999
New York: MDRC.

An evaluation of Milwaukee’s New Hope project, which seeks to improve the lives and reduce the poverty of low-income workers and their families, comparing the employment, earnings, impact on parent-child relations, use of child care, and child outcomes of a group of New Hope participants with a control group excluded from such assistance

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The relations of classroom contexts in the early elementary years to children's classroom and social behavior
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, July 2006
In A.C. Huston & M.N. Ripke (Eds.), Developmental contexts in middle childhood: Bridges to adolescence and adulthood (pp. 217-236). New York: Cambridge University Press

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A review of child care policies in experimental welfare and employment programs
Gennetian, Lisa A., 2001
(Next Generation Working Papers Series No. 1). New York: MDRC.

An exploration of child care policy components of experimental welfare and employment studies, based on a data from 9 studies of 21 programs

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School readiness and later achievement
Duncan, Greg, November 2007
Developmental Psychology, 43(6), 1428-1446

An analysis of findings from six longitudinal studies on the relation between children's academic, attention, and socioemotional skills on school entry and later academic achievement

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Structural and process features in three types of child care for children from high and low income families
Dowsett, Chantelle J., Q1 2008
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23(1), 69-93

A comparison of the features of child care centers, family child care homes, and relative care settings, such as child-to-adult ratios, group size, licensure, caregiver education and training, sensitivity and responsiveness of caregiving, positive and negative peer interaction, cognitive and language stimulation, and health and safety practices

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Study of early education in Texas: The relationship of pre-k attendance to 3rd grade test results
Huston, Aletha C., March, 2012
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources.

A study of the relationship of school-based prekindergarten attendance to third grade academic performance in Texas, based on test scores from more than 200,000 students enrolled in kindergarten in the 2000 school year who were also enrolled in third grade in either the 2003 or 2004 school years

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Study of early education in Texas: The relationship of pre-k attendance to 3rd grade test results [Executive summary]
Huston, Aletha C., March, 2012
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources.

A summary of a study of the relationship of school-based prekindergarten attendance to third grade academic performance in Texas, based on test scores from more than 200,000 students enrolled in kindergarten in the 2000 school year who were also enrolled in third grade in either the 2003 or 2004 school years

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A tale of two methods: Comparing regression and instrumental variables estimates of the effects of preschool child care type on the subsequent externalizing behavior of children in low-income families
Crosby, Danielle A., September 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(5), 1030-1048

A comparison of ordinary least squares regression and instrumental variable analysis, two analytic methods for the estimation of relationships between child care type and externalizing problems, in order to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of each, and an analysis of the relationship between child developmental and different care settings for children in low-income, single-mother families

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