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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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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families
United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2001
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives.

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Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: A unique research opportunity
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, 1991
Developmental Psychology, 27(6), 918-931

A description of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data set and its importance and relevance to future studies in multiple disciplines

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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 effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-year-old children and their parents: Lessons for policy and programs
Love, John M., 2005
Developmental Psychology, 41(6), 885-901

A summary of the evaluated impacts of Early Head Start on child and parent outcomes near the end of program participation

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The effects of early education intervention on maternal employment, public assistance, and health insurance: The Infant Health and Development Program
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, June, 1994
American Journal of Public Health, 84(6), 924-931

An investigation of 985 mothers and infants involved in an early childhood intervention, studying the maternal outcomes for employment, education, fertility, and receipt of public assistance and health insurance, based on interviews during pediatric visits

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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 early maternal employment on later cognitive and behavioral outcomes
Han, Wen-Jui, 2001
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63(2), 336-354

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 experience of early intervention of low birth weight, premature children: The Infant Health and Development Program
Liaw, Fong-ruey, 1995
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 10(4), 405-431

A study of the effects of individual children's early intervention experiences, in both home and child development center settings, on child and parental outcomes in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)

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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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Estimating the effects of Head Start on parenting and child maltreatment
Zhai, Fuhua, 2011
Children and Youth Services Review, , 1-11

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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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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The impact of child care subsidy use on child care quality
Ryan, Rebecca, Q3 2011
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26(3), 320-331

A study of the relationship between government subsidization and both selection of child care and quality of arrangements, based on data from parents of 456 3-year-olds in 14 cities in the United States

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Impacts of Early Head Start participation on child and parent outcomes at ages 2, 3, and 5
Vogel, Cheri, February, 2013
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 78(1), 36-63

A study of the impact of Early Head Start on child and family outcomes, including children's socioemotional and cognitive development and families' well-being and home environments, and an examination of the age at which program impacts appear and of mediators of impacts at age 5, based on data for randomly-assigned low income families collected when children were 2, 3, and 5 years old

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The joint influence of mother and father parenting on child cognitive outcomes at age 5
Martin, Anne, Q4 2007
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22(4), 423-439

An assessment of the association between both maternal and paternal supportiveness during toddlerhood and young children’s math and language achievement at age 5 in a sample of 200 low-income two-parent homes participating in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project

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Links between childbearing age and observed maternal behaviors with 14-month-olds in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
Berlin, Lisa, 2002
Infant Mental Health Journal, 23(1-2), 104-129

A study addressing links between maternal childbearing age and parenting behaviors, based on a sample of 1,702 low-income mothers

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Low-income children's school readiness: Parent contributions over the first five years
Chazan-Cohen, Rachel, November 2009
Early Education and Development, 20(6), 958-977

A study of the association of both home environment and parental support of play measured at 14 months and school readiness skills measured at kindergarten and a study of the association between parenting changes during the first 5 years of life and school readiness based on data collected as part of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project with a sample of 1,273 child and parent assessments

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Low-income fathers' involvement in their toddlers' lives: Biological fathers from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study
Cabrera, Natasha J., 2004
Fathering, 2(1), 5-30

An investigation into the influence of fathers’ involvement on children’s outcomes, based on a sample of 1,550 mothers from the Early Head Start (EHS) Research and Evaluation Project, and 597 fathers from the Father Involvement with Toddlers Study (FITS)

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Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Vol. I. Final technical report
United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2002
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A report of the findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of the impact of Early Head Start programs on the development of infants and toddlers, and the parenting and family development of low-income families across the US

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Maternal reading and teaching patterns: Associations with school readiness in low-income African-American families
Britto, Pia Rebello, 2006
Reading Research Quarterly, 41(1), 68-89

A study of the effects of maternal reading and teaching patterns on children’s school readiness and language scores, based on a sample of 126 low-income, young African-American mothers and their preschool-aged children

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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
Raikes, Helen, July/August 2006
Child Development, 77(4), 924-953

An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project

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Neighborhood characteristics and child care type and quality
Burchinal, Margaret, September 2008
Early Education and Development, 19(5), 702-725

A study of the association between the social and demographic characteristics of neighborhoods and neighborhood-level child care choice and quality, based on a sample of 80 Chicago neighborhoods

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Order in the house! Associations among household chaos, the home literacy environment, maternal reading ability, and children’s early reading
Johnson, Anna D., October 2008
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 54(4), 445-472

An examination of associations between household chaos, the home literacy environment, and early reading skills, based on data collected from a population of 455 twins enrolled in the Western Reserve Reading Project

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Profiles of grandmothers who help care for their grandchildren in the United States
Baydar, Nazli, 1998
Family Relations, 47(4), 385-393

A discussion of characteristics of care-giving grandmothers using survey data from the National Survey of Families and Households in 1987 and 1988

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