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Are Head Start effects sustained?: A longitudinal follow-up comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool, and other preschool programs
Lee, Valerie E., 1990
Child Development, 61(2), 495-507

A study of the sustained effects in kindergarten and first grade of Project Head Start for disadvantaged black children between 1969 and 1970 in two American cities

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Associations among family environment, sustained attention, and school readiness for low-income children
Razza, Rachel A., 2010
Developmental Psychology, , 1-15

A study of sustained attention as a mediator of the relationship between family environment and school readiness, based on data from 1,046 low income children, with family environment data collected at 3-years-old and both attention and school readiness data collected at 5-years of age

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Child care and children of color
Spencer, Margaret B., 1995
In P. L. Chase-Lansdale & J. Brooks-Gunn (Eds.), Escape from poverty: What makes a difference for children? (pp. 138-156). New York: Cambridge University Press

A discussion of the United States Family Support Act of 1988 and the developmental impact of poverty and child care regulations on children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families

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Does Head Start work?: A 1-year follow-up comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool, and other preschool programs
Lee, Valerie E., 1988
Developmental Psychology, 24(2), 210-222

A comparison of cognitive outcomes among Head Start children, children without any preschool experience, and children enrolled in other preschool programs

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Early intervention in low birth weight premature infants: Results at 18 years of age for the Infant Health and Development Program
McCormick, Marie C., 2006
Pediatrics, 117(3), 771-780

Findings from a follow-up study on the persistence of cognitive and behavioral benefits from early childhood program participation in 18-year-olds who were born with low birth weight and participated in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)

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Economic deprivation and early childhood development
Duncan, Greg, 1994
Child Development, 65(2), 296-318

A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program

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The effects of early maternal employment on child cognitive development
Waldfogel, Jane, 2002
Demography, 39(2), 369-392

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 the home instruction programs for preschooler youngsters (HIPPY) on children's school performance at the end of the program and one year later
Baker, Amy J.L., 1998
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(4), 571-588

A study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschooler Children, a costless two year family-oriented home-based early childhood intervention administered to low-income children; the study included assessments of the children’s cognitive skills, adaptation to the classroom, and standardized test achievement at the end of the program

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Effects of maternal employment and child-care arrangements on preschoolers' cognitive and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Baydar, Nazli, 1991
Developmental Psychology, 27(6), 932-945

A study of the relationships among child social and cognitive development, child characteristics, child care arrangements and maternal labor force variables

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First-year maternal employment and child development in the first 7 years
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, August 2010
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 75(2), 1-145

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
Zhai, Fuhua, January 2011
Developmental Psychology, 47(1), 134-152

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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Racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, 2007
In Pianta, R. C., Cox M. J., & Snow K. L. (2007). School readiness and the transition to kindergarten in the era of accountability (pp. 283-306). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A discussion of underlying factors causing the racial and ethnic achievement gaps between White and non-White students, with recommendations of strategies and social programs for narrowing the achievement gap

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A randomized study of neighborhood effects on low-income children's educational outcomes
Leventhal, Tama, 2004
Developmental Psychology, 40(4), 488-507

A follow-up study of the academic achievement of children whose families moved from high-poverty to low-poverty neighborhoods with the assistance of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program

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Reading ahead: Effective interventions for young children's early literacy development
Britto, Pia Rebello, 2006
In D. K. Dickinson & S. B. Neuman (Eds.), Handbook of early literacy research (Vol. 2, pp. 311-332). New York: Guilford Press

An exploration of influences on the literacy development of young children from low socioeconomic status families, and the effectiveness of early intervention programs

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