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Research Connections is supported by grant #90YE0104 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

			Higher ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children Duncan, Greg, 2007 New York: Russell Sage Foundation An evaluation of the short- and long-term effects of the New Hope program on the outcomes of the low-income participants and their children	Reports & Papers
			Instability in child care: Ethnographic evidence from working poor families in the New Hope intervention Lowe, Edward D., 2003 (Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 15). New York: MDRC. A study of the influence of financial and material resources, social network supports, interpersonal balance in the family, family goals and values, and the stability of the daily routine in changes or stability in child care choices, using data from the New Hope intervention	Reports & Papers
			Making child care choices: How welfare and work policies influence parents' decisions Gennetian, Lisa A., 2002 (Next Generation Policy Brief). New York: MDRC. A policy brief reviewing nine random assignment evaluations of the child care decisions made by approximately 20,000 low income parents	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			My brother's keeper: Child and sibling caretaking Weisner, Thomas S., 1977 Current Anthropology, 18(2), 169-190 A sociological analysis of different child care settings, their cultural variations, and possible impacts on children from different caretakers	Other
			New hope for children and families: Five-year results of a program to reduce poverty and reform welfare: Executive summary Huston, Aletha C., 2003 New York: MDRC. A summary of research findings evaluating a program designed to assist low income people secure employment and reduce poverty	Executive Summary
			New hope for families and children: Five-year results of a program to reduce poverty and reform welfare Huston, Aletha C., 2003 New York: MDRC. An evaluation of a program designed to help low income families find and maintain employment, reduce poverty and improve overall family well-being	Reports & Papers
			Unpackaging cultural effects on classroom learning: Native Hawaiian peer assistance and child-generated activity Weisner, Thomas S., 1988 Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 19(4), 327-353 A study of the relationships among sibling child care, culture, literacy and teacher and peer interactions among native Hawaiian children	Reports & Papers
			"You have to push it--who's gonna raise your kids?": Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower-income families Lowe, Edward D., 2001 New York: MDRC. A brief summarizing the findings from a study of the factors explaining the low and episodic use of center-based child care and child care subsidy programs, on the basis of data from the New Hope Ethnographic Study.	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			'You have to push it--who's gonna raise your kids?': Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families Lowe, Edward D., 2004 Children and Youth Services Review, 26(2), 143-171 A four-year, longitudinal study measuring the influence of cultural and ecological factors on low income families' use of child care subsidies	Reports & Papers
			''You have to push it--who's gonna raise your kids?'': Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower-income families Lowe, Edward D., 2001 (The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 7). New York: MDRC. A study of the factors explaining the low and episodic use of center-based child care and child care subsidy programs, on the basis of data from the New Hope Ethnographic Study.	Reports & Papers
			Youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children: Results from two longitudinal studies East, Patricia, December 2009 Journal of Family Issues, 30(12), 1671-1697 An examination of the relationship between hours of care for thier adolescent sister's children and gender, ethnicity, and family backgrounds in a sample of 132 Latino and African American youth and a second examination of the relationship between hours of care for thier adolescent sister's children and family background, gender, and care experiences across time, for 110 Latino adolescents	Reports & Papers

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