Community Variations in Child Care for Working Poor Families: Contributions to Child Development and Parental Employment Opportunities
A description and comparison of the "child care landscapes" in four communities with diverse subsidy policies, employing an integrated design and using existing data, qualitative data, and quantitative data to identify the community-level variables that are most strongly associated with quality of care and child and family outcomes, and to determine the linkages between child care characteristics and parental work outcomes. The first phase includes 500 parent surveys, 30 community informant interviews, 15 parent focus groups and an analysis of existing community data. The second phase includes assessments of 300 children (30 infants/toddlers and 30 preschoolers in each of 5 communities), their parents, and their child care providers, using measures of child care structural quality, process quality, child development, and parent employment.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
The Impact of Kindergarten Entrance Policies on the Child Care Needs of Families
An assessment of the impact of a change in kindergarten entrance age policy on the child care needs of families, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K) data set to estimate: (1) the number of children who might be affected; (2) the demographic characteristics of the affected families; and (3) the potential child care costs that might result from such a change.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Rhode Island Child Care Policy Research Partnership
A collaboration between the Wellesley Child Care Research Partnership and a Rhode Island child-focused policy organization to evaluate access to, and quality of, child care in the Starting Right era. The project uses data from a variety of programs, and investigates whether the State's investments in families and children have advanced success in early literacy, school readiness, strong families, and positive youth development.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Variations in Child Care and School Success: Longitudinal Follow-up of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study
A longitudinal follow-up of the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study through fifth grade, examining variations in child care quality and school performance.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
