Accessing and affording child care and low-income mothers' employment over time: An ecological approach
A study of the influence of child problem behaviors and maternal risk factors on low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, an examination of family income as a mediator of the relationships between child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors and low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, and an examination of the relationships between low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care and family income, child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors, and ability to obtain and maintain employment
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Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report
An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants
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Characteristics of effective collaboration among innovative early childhood intervention programs
A qualitative study of collaboration and communication processes between early childhood intervention programs and the families and the community, based on a survey and observations of two sites serving a low-income, high needs population
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Child care and early education in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
A study of child care attendance patterns and quality indicators, parent child care decisionmaking and satisfaction, and developmental outcomes of infants and preschool-age children in Australia, based on data from 5,107 infants and 4,983 preschool-age children from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
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Child care and work challenges for Maine's parents of children with special needs
An examination of child care and work issues for parents of children with special needs from focus groups and interviews with parents, child care providers, and other professionals involved with service delivery and a presentation of several strategies Maine has developed to address them
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Child care choices in Spain
An econometric study of the relationship between families' child care choices and the relative prices of various types of care, families' economic resources, changes in family needs as children grow, and availability of care, based on a survey of 1,615 households from both the Spanish Time Use Survey and Household Budget Survey
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The Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale: Measuring child care funding and policy generosity across states
The development of a composite measure of state generosity entitled the Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale (CCSS), an examination of the relationship between the CCSS and state funding and policy indicators, the relationship between CCSS and political ideology, partisanship, wealth, and race/ethnicity, and an investigation of the relationship between the CCSS and differences in the characteristics of families, child care subsidy use, and type of care, from a secondary analysis of state-generated Child Care Development Fund data
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Child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers
An examination of the relationship between child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers after 1996, based on data collected in 1999 and 2002 from the National Survey of America's Families, and an examination of the relationship between free public kindergarten for 5-year-old children and employment for different groups of mothers and groups of states, based on data from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 rounds of the American Community Survey
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Child care subsidy patterns: Are exits related to economic setbacks or economic successes?
An analysis of factors associated with child care subsidy use exits among single mothers in Wisconsin due to high earnings, job loss, or other reasons, based on statewide administrative data from a cohort of mothers beginning subsidy use between March 2000 and February 2001
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Dialogical spaces to reconceptualize parent support in the social investment state
A survey of parent opinions of social support initiatives for parents and children from 44 interviews and 311 survey respondents in Brussels, Belgium
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Early school performance for students with disabilities: Examining the impact of early childhood special education, parent involvement, and family quality of life
An examination of home-based parent involvement and family quality of life
as moderators of the relationship between parent ratings of early childhood special education services and academic or social-behavioral outcomes for children with disabilities, based on 156 parent ratings of services
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Ecological influences on emergent literacy development: The role of home and preschool experiences in the transition from language to literacy
An examination of the relationships between measures of children's home and preschool settings and their performance on tests of emergent literacy, as well as an examination of pre-reading abilities and the factors that contribute to their growth, from longitudinal data collected by the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER)
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Effect of using the Ages and Stages questionnaires on childcare providers developmental assessment ability
An investigation the influence of the administration a standardized developmental screening tool and order of administration on accuracy of provider assessment of delayed child development and appropriate referral for further evaluation, a study of the relationship between accurate assessment and referral to an early intervention agency and child care provider age, years of experience, and educational level, and a third study of the relationship of parental impression of their child’s development and the child care provider impression, based on data collected from 105 providers in 9 centers, 195 parents, and interviews with 9 providers
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Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children
An examination of the relationship between both maternal employment and usage of non-parental after- and/or before-school supervision and elementary school-age children's body mass statuses from restricted use version of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 from waves 4, 5, and 6
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Effects of parent expectations and involvement on the school readiness of children in Head Start
A study of the relationships between measures of school readiness and both parental expectations and involvement in their children's home learning activities, and an exploration of moderation by race, gender, and level of risk, based on data collected from 77 caregivers of children formerly enrolled in a Head Start program
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Enrolling a child in centre-based care: The parent's experience
A study of parental emotional experiences with child care decision making, concerns for their children's emotional well being while in care, and hopes and desires for their experience while in care, based on interviews with 8 parents of children 1- through 3-years-old in their first year of center-based care
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Essays on welfare, children, and families
An examination of the relationship between child care subsidies and subsidy receipt and employment of single mothers from an analysis of Current Population Survey data and state policy surveys from 2001 to 2007
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Evaluating the efficacy of the Parents Activate Literacy Skills (PALS) program
A study of the effect of the PALS parent implemented emergent literacy intervention and a study of the effect of Supportive Parenting Training on both the reading readiness of preschoolers and parent-child relationships among preschoolers and their caregivers in a sample 24 parents and their children 3 through 5 years who attend preschool
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Examining the effects of child care subsidy eligibility on children's child care experiences
An examination of the effect of Child Care and Development Fund subsidy eligibility status on children's subsequent care arrangements from a secondary analysis of the 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Factors that promote or inhibit the involvement of African American parents in a community college early childhood education program
A study of the parental role constructions that influence the involvement of 12 African American parents in their children's educations both at home and at a child development center
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Intergenerational child care support and the fluctuating fertility: A note
An economic model of the relationship between fertility and intergenerational child care support provided by grandparents, based on the Easterlin Hypothesis
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An investigation into the impact of revised eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) in the state of Rhode Island
An investigation of the influence of revised eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) on the continued participation of Rhode Island families in the program and the ability of these families to procure child care, based on a survey of 95 families who lost all or some of their subsidies and 366 child care providers who provide services to families affected by the revisions
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An investigation of the effectiveness of a home-school intervention involving Direct Behavior Ratings to decrease disruptive behavior in preschoolers
An investigation of the influence of a home to school collaborative intervention of direct behavior ratings to decrease disruptive behavior in 4 preschoolers
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Low-income African American parents’ views about the value of play for their preschool age children in Head Start
A qualitative study of 12 low-income African American mothers' beliefs about the value of play and its relationship to language development, critical thinking, and social competencies of their children attending Head Start in central Florida
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Low-income mothers, provisioning, and childcare policy: A vision of shared caring
A qualitative study of low-income urban mothers' constraints and strategies to provide care for their children, perceived availability of child care programs and applicability of policies for low- and high-income women, and a study of the relationship between child care policies and programs and low-income women’s capacity to provide for their children, based on interviews with 20 low-income mothers in an urban community in Ontario
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