Child care and the family: An opportunity to study development in context
An overview of the Study of Early Child Care by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Children, labour supply and child care: Challenges for empirical analysis
An economic discussion of the relationships between labor supply, child care, and work, as well as analytical problems and challenges
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The demand for child care quality: An hedonic price theory approach
An economic analysis of the role of child care pricing, demand and government subsidization in shaping child care quality
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Does quality of child care affect child outcomes at age 4 1/2?
A study exploring the causal nature of relations between child care quality and children's development, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Dosage effects on school readiness: Evidence from a randomized classroom-based intervention
A study of dosage effects of a targeted intervention on low-income child behavior problems, emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills, and cognitive development, as well as a study of variation of dosage effects across school readiness measures and the individual components of the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), based on data from 602 children and 90 teachers in 35 Head Start-funded classrooms
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Effects of child-care on women's work effort: Comment
Analysis and comment on a Tobit analysis of market and labor supply statistics
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Effects of kindergarten retention on children’s socio-emotional development: An application of propensity score method to multivariate, multilevel data
An investigation of the relationships between kindergarten retention and children’s social-emotional outcomes in later grades
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Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds
An econometric approach to estimate the influence of expanding early education enrollment opportunities on test scores from five waves of bi-annual survey data on Dutch pupils enrolled in grades 2, 4, 6, and 8
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Explaining public opinion toward government spending on child care
An evaluation of public opinion toward government spending for child care from the 1988 American National Election Study
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The feasibility of combining the Parents' Demand for Childcare and Parents of Three and Four Year Olds series of surveys: Methods paper
A paper examining the methodological issues involved in combining two child care surveys in the United Kingdom
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From statistical associations to causation: What developmentalists can learn from instrumental variables techniques coupled with experimental data
An employment of the Instrumental Variables Technique in a study of the association between maternal education and children's cognitive development on school entry
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Home environment and cognitive development in the first 3 years of life: A collaborative study involving six sites and three ethnic groups in North America
Examines the generalizability of relationships between home environment and children's early development status across groups of white, African American and Mexican American children one to three years of age
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Is preschool executive function causally related to academic achievement?
A reanalysis of data using an alternative analytic approach--a fixed effects regression analysis--to examine the relationship between preschool executive function and children's academic achievement, based on data from 794 preschool children, assessed in the fall and spring of an academic year
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Moderation and mediation in structural equation modeling: Applications for early intervention research
An explanation of the concepts of moderating and mediating variables in structural equation models, and examples of their use in models describing the significance of interventions for young children with disabilities
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An overview of Markov Chain Methods for the study of stage-sequential developmental processes
An overview of selected statistical methodologies for the study of stage-sequential development, using as an example the reading proficiency of children above and below the poverty line
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Predicting parental perceptions of children's longitudinal school success from early child care experiences
An analysis of the relationship between earlier child care environments and parental reports of children’s academic performance and adjustment to school throughout elementary school, based on data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Longitudinal Study
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Predicting school failure from information available at birth
A study of the use of birth certificate information to predict the psychological and educational status of approximately 1000 randomly sampled North Carolina first graders in order to develop a cost effective mechanism to identify children who will potentially need special needs services
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Profiles of emergent literacy skills among preschool children who are at risk for academic difficulties
A first study to identify reliable profiles of emergent literacy among preschoolers and a second study of the predictive validity of the profiles on mid-year teacher ratings of emergent literacy and end-of-kindergarten literacy assessments, based on data from 492 at risk children in 93 publically-funded preschool programs in a Midwest state
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Recollections of childhood: A study of the retrospective method
A critique of the use of memory in research, focusing on the corresponding accuracies of child behavioral studies using contemporaneously obtained data and retrospective reports of child care experiences
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A review of the Reason Foundation's report on preschool and kindergarten
An analysis criticizing the selective use of research findings in a Reason Foundation report assessing preschool and kindergarten policy proposals
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Strengthening benefit-cost analysis for early childhood interventions: Workshop summary
A discussion of proceedings from a workshop with a focus on the importance of accurate, in-depth benefit-cost analysis in the recommendation of early childhood intervention policies
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A tale of two methods: Comparing regression and instrumental variables estimates of the effects of preschool child care type on the subsequent externalizing behavior of children in low-income families
A comparison of ordinary least squares regression and instrumental variable analysis, two analytic methods for the estimation of relationships between child care type and externalizing problems, in order to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of each, and an analysis of the relationship between child developmental and different care settings for children in low-income, single-mother families
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Uses and misuses of data on outcomes for young children with disabilities
An overview of information that addresses the various purposes that outcome data can serve and distinctions between these purposes, what will be gained by having outcome data for a particular purpose or lost by not having those data, and the possible misuses of outcome data
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What does the NICHD Study really tell us about child care and aggression?
A critique of the use of data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study on Early Child Care in a study on the relationship between the amounts of time spent in child care and aggressive behavior of children in kindergarten
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What ''extras'' do we get with extracurriculars?: Technical research considerations
A report discussing the effect of out-of-school-time extracurricular activities by elementary school children on academic achievement and school behavior and the significance of activity type
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