Child care in JOBS employment and training program: What difference does quality make?
A study on the influence of good quality child care availability on JOBS Employment and Training Program participant retention
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Child care in the wake of welfare reform: The impact of government subsidies on the economic well-being of single-mother families
A study of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and its impact on the economic well being of single low income mothers
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Child care, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
An analysis of welfare reform's design to move parents, including those with young children, into the labor force and the manifold issues that arise: child care choices and adequacy of choices, parental child care choice, and consumer education regarding welfare reform
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Child care policy reform and the employment of single mothers
An examination of the effect of growth in child care subsidies, from 1991 through 1996, on employment rates of single mothers, using data from the 1992 through 1997 March Current Population Surveys
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Child care preferences and choices: Are AFDC recipients unique?
An analysis of data concerning child care decisions, arrangements, and attitudes of single mothers entering the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in California
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their labor market activity
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their employment.
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Choice and accommodation in parental child care decisons
An overview of research on the determinants of child care use and choice, including socioeconomic status, demographic characteristics, price, parental employment status, and quality of care
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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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Cracks in the seams: Durability of child care in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
An analysis of the integration of targeted child care subsidies and services and transitions for low-income participants in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) welfare-to-work program
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The dynamics of child care subsidy use: A collaborative study of five states
A study of characteristics of child care subsidy use in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas from July 1997 to June 1999, including examinations of services received, continuity, duration, and stability, based on administrative data collected from state subsidy payment systems
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The dynamics of child care subsidy use: A collaborative study of five states [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from a multi-state study of child care subsidy dynamics from July 1997 to June 1999 in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas
Executive Summary
The effects of expanded public funding for early education and child care on preschool enrollment in the 1990s
An examination of the relationship between public funding and child care enrollment levels among low-income children between 1992-2000, based on merging cross sectional data from the October Current Population Survey with data on state-level funding
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Inequality in children's school readiness and public funding
An analysis of the relationship between the rise in public preschool funding and socioeconomic disparities in preschool enrollment, with considerations of preschool quality and its role in school readiness for disadvantaged children
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Inequality in preschool education and school readiness
A comparison of the effects of preschool education on the school readiness of advantaged and disadvantaged children, utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ELS-K)
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Inequality in pre-school education and school readiness
A study examining links between center or school-based preschool attendance and factors that contribute to school readiness and success, including reading and math skills, and suggests that school success gaps between children from high to middle and middle to low income families may be narrowed or eliminated by sending all children to preschool using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)
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Packaging support for low-income families: Policy variation across the United States
An analysis of variations in state level social policy packages that provide support for low-income families with children
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The performance of the child-care subsidy system
A discussion of the child care subsidy system in California centering around target efficiency, coverage adequacy, and equity of the system for low-income and welfare recipient families
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Public funding and enrollment in formal child care in the 1990s
An analysis of the relation between public funding of child care and young children's child care attendance through the 1990s, using data from the 1999 October Current Population Survey
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Who gets an early education?: Family income and the enrollment of 3- to 5-year-olds from 1968 to 2000
A study examining the links between family income, access to high quality early education programs and economic policies through four periods from 1968 to 2000
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Who gets an early education?: Family income and the enrollment of three- to five-year-olds from 1968 to 2000
An exploration of trends in disparities in access to early education from 1968 to 2000, based on enrollment data for children in all school settings and family income data from the October Current Population Survey
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Who gets what from government?: Distributional consequences of child-care assistance policies
An analysis of the level and distribution of child care assistance using data from the New York Social Indicators Survey to examine how many families receive assistance, how much assistance is received, and how the total assistance levels vary in terms of family, child, and parent characteristics
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Who pays?: The visible and invisible costs of child care
An examination of how much New York-based parents pay for child care, amount provided by government subsidies, and estimated value of family, friend, and neighbor caregiving
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