Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used?
A study analyzing administrative data from Miami-Dade County, Florida to determine the impact of welfare reform on child care quality
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Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used?: Part II: Figures and appendix
A figure-based appendix to a report that evaluated child care quality through various program characteristics, including subsidies, religion, and education level
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Championing our children: Looking at changes in quality price and availability of child care in the welfare reform age
An examination of the availability, quality, and price of services offered by licensed child care and early childhood education providers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, during a 38-month period surrounding the passage and implementation of welfare reform
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Changes in the availability, quality and price of child care in Massachusetts between 1997 and 1999
A report comparing the characteristics of subsidized and non-subsidized child care providers in Massachusetts from 1997 to 1999
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Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform
A study that examines the employment and earnings of current and former recipients of welfare benefits and child care subsidies and assesses the impact of increased funding for child care and other policy changes.
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Child care and the welfare to work transition
A report on child care-related factors affecting welfare recipients' decisions to work or participate in training under Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) regulations
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Child care in Massachusetts: Where the supply is and isn't
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Childcare regulations: A method to pursue social welfare goals
An analysis of the effectiveness of state and local regulations in determining child care staff ratios for 692 child care centers serving preschool children, drawn from a national survey
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Duration of subsidized child care arrangements in five areas of Massachusetts: A briefing report [Draft]
A study of the characteristics of the children and families receiving child care vouchers in Massachusetts, including the type of child care purchased with child care vouchers and the duration of continuous enrollment in the Commonwealth’s voucher program
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Estimating the unmet need for child care: A practical approach using a child care illustration
A description and illustration of a method for locating and estimating unmet demand for child care services in Massachusetts neighborhoods, redesigned for social agency interpretation and practical application
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Estimating the unmet need for services: A middling approach
A description of the method and results of an unmet demand estimate for child care services in neighborhoods in Hampden County, Massachusetts
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An examination of the child care choices of low-income families receiving child care subsidies
A study of the household and community characteristics associated with the child care choices of families receiving child care subsidies, a presentation of econometric models of child care decision making for subsidy-receiving families, and a study of resulting changes in child care choices following a 2001 reform of subsidy policy, based on data collected from all Rhode Island families receiving child care subsidies between May 1996 and June 2002
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An examination of the child care choices of low-income families receiving child care subsidies: Executive summary
A summary of findings from a study of the impact of household characteristics, the number of children in the household receiving subsidies, and policy and administrative changes to the child care subsidy program on the child care choices of subsidized families in Rhode Island.
Executive Summary
An examination of the duration of child care subsidies in Rhode Island: Impacts of policy changes and cross state comparisons
A longitudinal comparison of the relationships between the duration of child care subsidy use and family characteristics, the presence of an entitlement system, changes in and use of welfare programs, and increases in access to subsidies, based on data collected from three cohorts of families in Rhode Island receiving their first subsidies in 1996, 1997, or 2000
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An examination of the duration of child care subsidies in Rhode Island: Impacts of policy changes and cross state comparisons [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of child care subsidies in Rhode Island over a seven year period; the study tracked cycling patterns of the subsidies usage, the correlation between administration of the subsidy program and the exiting of participating families, and the characteristics that influenced the duration a family will take advantage of child care subsidies
Executive Summary
Impacts of eligibility expansions and provider reimbursement rate increases on child care subsidy take-up rates, welfare use and work
An assessment of the influence of expanded child care subsidy eligibility and increased provider reimbursement rates on demand for care, cash assistance receipt, and employment among current and former welfare recipients in Rhode Island
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Influences on neighborhood supply of child care in Massachusetts
An analysis of regional child care demand in Massachusetts as associated with demographic characteristics
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A map for you?: Geographic information systems in the social services
A presentation of geographic information systems and its illustrative application to the social services, such as creating a map showing child care service providers’ location and characteristics and mapping the ratio of child care slots to the number of children in a population to locate areas with potential service-availability gaps
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The policy context and infant and toddler care in the welfare reform era
A study of the effects of welfare reform and child care subsidy policies on the availability, quality, and price of child care for infants and toddlers from 1996 to 2000 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and five representative areas in Massachusetts
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The policy context and infant and toddler care in the welfare reform era
A summary of findings from Miami-Dade County, FL and five areas in Massachusetts that their policies governing welfare reform, the child care subsidy system, and minimum-standards regulation have had considerable impact on the availability, price, and quality of infant and toddler care during welfare reform’s progression between 1996 to 2000
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Take-up rates and trade offs after the age of entitlement: Some thoughts and empirical evidence for child care subsidies
A model of determinants of child care subsidy use, a comparison of subsidy take-up rate calculations between states that do and do not guarantee subsidies to all eligible families, and an estimate of the usage rates of child care subsidies among eligible Rhode Island families
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Unintended consequences?: Welfare reform and the earnings of low-income women
An examination of the impact of welfare reform and child care subsidies on the earnings of socioeconomically disadvantaged women
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Unintended consequences?: Welfare reform and the working poor
A longitudinal study of the impact of the early stages of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) on the earnings of poor working families who do not receive cash assistance, examining the relationship between PRWORA welfare reform and a federal minimum wage increase and increased funding for child care subsidies, based on longitudinal data from Florida’s Dade County
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Wellesley Child Care Research Partnership
A partnership formed to generate new knowledge to help guide the development of child care delivery systems that are more efficient, effective, and responsive to the needs of low-income families and their children. The partnership employs a dual focus on family self-sufficiency and on the quality of care received by children. To ensure that results provide accurate, consistent, and structured policy guidance, the researchers employ a carefully developed conceptual framework that incorporates child care and welfare policies, family child care choices, provider choices, and family and child care outcomes. Based on the conceptual framework, partnership researchers estimate empirical models to answer policy questions. Empirical measures come from a variety of Federal, State and local databases.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
What happens when child care inspections and complaints are made available on the internet?
An assessment of how making child care provider inspection reports available on the internet affected the quality of care received by children using child care subsidies in Broward County, Florida, between 1999 and 2002
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