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Child care and school performance in Denmark and the United States A cross-national comparison of studies of the relationships between child care type and elementary school academic achievement, based on analyses of data from large samples of children in Denmark and the United States |
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Child care costs and women's employment: A comparison of single and married mothers with pre-school-aged children An analysis of the effects of child care costs on the employment of single and married women with preschool-aged children, using data from the 1991 to 1994 March Current Population Surveys |
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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 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, women's employment, and child outcomes A review of the literature on the impact of child care and maternal employment in the preschool years on child outcomes, addressing potential benefits of early intervention on child care programs and effects of maternal employment and child care in the first years of life |
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Cognitive and non-cognitive peer effects in early education A study of the relationship of children's social and cognitive outcomes in kindergarten and the early elementary grades to their peers' enrollment in preschool, based on kindergarten, first grade, and third grade data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 (ECLS-K) |
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Cognitive and noncognitive peer effects in early education A study of the relationship between children's social and cognitive outcomes in kindergarten and the early elementary grades and their peers' enrollment in preschool, based on kindergarten, first grade, and third grade data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 (ECLS-K) |
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Comparative child and family policy [Special issue] A special issue of the journal Children and Youth Services Review, featuring international comparative studies of child care and other family and child policies |
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Differential effects of high-quality child care An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care |
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Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? A study of the effects of prekindergarten programs on children's levels of school readiness, skill development, and behavioral growth, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study |
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Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? A study on the effects of prekindergarten on early school achievement and behavior, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study |
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Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? An analysis of children’s academic and behavioral outcomes in the fall of kindergarten as a function of their pre-kindergarten childcare experiences, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) for a sample of 10,224 children |
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Early childhood care and education: Effects on ethnic and racial gaps in school readiness An examination of the different early childhood care and education experiences of white, black, and Hispanic children and the role of these experiences in determining children's school readiness |
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Early childhood policy: A comparative perspective A comparison of early childhood policy choices made by the United States and other nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the areas of parental leave, early childhood education and care, and child benefits |
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The effects of early maternal employment on child cognitive development A study of the effects on child cognitive development at age seven or eight of maternal labor force reentry during the first three years of life, controlling for factors such as child care use, based on mothers and their children in the nationally representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 |
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The effects of early maternal employment on later cognitive and behavioral outcomes A longitudinal study controlling for factors such as child care use to determine if the effects on child cognitive development of maternal labor force reentry during the first three years of life persisted through ages seven or eight, using data from the nationally representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 |
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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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Equal access to high quality early education and care?: Evidence from England and lessons from other countries Findings from a study in England on the relationship of children's social background to the quality and expense of care they receive, and a discussion of strategies to increase access to high-quality child care for disadvantaged children in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States |
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Estimating the effects of Head Start on parenting and child maltreatment A study of the relationship between Head Start participation and both maltreatment and harsh parenting in a sample of 2,807 low income families |
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Fighting poverty: Attentive policy can make a huge difference A discussion of child poverty trends in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1989-2008 and related poverty policies thought to be responsible for those trends |
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First-year maternal employment and child development in the first 7 years A study of the relationships between the hours worked by mothers in the first year of their children's lives and the socioemotional and cognitive development of their children at age 3, age 4.5, and in first grade, and a study of differences in these relationships in samples of white and African American children, based on a secondary analysis of data collected from over 1,000 families from 10 areas throughout the United States |
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Head Start and urban children's school readiness: A birth cohort study in 18 cities A longitudinal investigation of the links between Head Start participation and the cognitive and social competencies associated with children's school readiness, based on a subsample of 2,803 children from eighteen cities who participated in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study |
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Head Start participation and school readiness: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort A comparison of academic skills and socioemotional well-being at kindergarten entry for populations of children who attended Head Start or other types of child care, based on data from 6,950 children, their parents, schools, and teachers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, Kindergarten sample, a nationally representative sample of children born in 2001 |
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Improving the measurement of poverty Alternative estimates of the 2007 national poverty rates, derived from expenditures for shelter, food, clothing, utilities, a measure of family income that includes earnings, cash transfers, near-cash benefits, tax credits, and tax payments, and that accounts for child care, work, and out-of pocket medical expenses, variation in regional cost of living, and mortgage-free home ownership, conceptualized by a 1995 National Academy of Sciences panel and similar to the supplemental poverty measure to be produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, based on data from 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, the Consumer Expenditure Survey for 2003-2007, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and other national data |
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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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