Are Denver's communities ready for kids?: A brief for individuals and organizations working to improve child outcomes in Denver, Colorado
An analysis of neighborhood indicators to determine Denver, Colorado's ability to prepare children to enter school ready to learn and succeed, including information on family demographics, availability of early childhood programs, and children's academic achievement
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families
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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Can consumers detect lemons?: An empirical analysis of information asymmetry in the market for child care
A study and comparison of parent and trained observer ratings of child care quality based on data from a stratified random sample of infant-toddler and preschool classrooms in approximately 100 child care centers
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Can consumers detect lemons?: An empirical analysis of information asymmetry in the market for child care
An examination of the influence of asymmetrical information and adverse selection on the quality of available child care, as well as parents' ability to discern different qualities of care, based on data gathered from 228 infant and toddler classrooms and 518 preschool rooms from 100 programs in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina
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Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families
A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment
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Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers
An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Child-care use among welfare mothers: A dynamic analysis
A study of welfare mothers' child care arrangements and usage trends, particularly the durability of child care arrangements in relationship to child care type and cost, and mothers’ subjective ratings of quality and their impact on the probability of changing or ending their current child care arrangements
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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
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The Early Head Start Father Studies: Design, data collection, and summary of father presence in the lives of infants and toddlers
An overview of the Early Head Start Father Studies, describing the study methodology, response rates, father demographics, and father child relationship
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The effect of the price of child care on AFDC mothers' paid work behavior
An analysis of the relationship between child care prices and hours of paid work for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in Denver, Colorado
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An examination of child care subsidies and their impact on families with infants and toddlers
A qualitative investigation of the influence of child care subsidy policy on the lives of low-income parents and families, based on interviews with parents receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), Early Head Start and Head Start professionals, administrators, and social service professionals
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Fathering attitudes and practices: Influences on children's development
An investigation into the influence of fathers' parenting beliefs and level of modernity on their children's development, based on a sample of 525 biological fathers and stepfathers participating in the Early Head Start Research and Demonstration Project
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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Findings from a survey of biological fathers of sampled children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including data on fathers' demographic characteristics, attitudes about fathering, and involvement in child care
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Getting and retaining child care assistance: How policy and practice influence parents experiences
A study of parents' interaction with the child care subsidy system and how state and local subsidy policies and practices affect parents' experiences. Particular attention is paid to the process of applying for and retaining subsidies.
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The influence of collaboration on program outcomes: The Colorado Nurse-Family Partnership
A study of the relationships between family attrition in the Nurse Family Partnerships program and participant age, education, employment, mental health, mastery of program content, site level collaborative quality and process quality, as well as number of nurse visits and nurse attrition, from 2,824 participants at six sites in Colorado from 1999 through 2003
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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families
A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States
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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
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 grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement
An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities
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Migrant and seasonal Head Start and child care partnerships: A report from the field
A study conducted by the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Collaboration Office and the Quality in Linking Together (QUILT) to determine the scope of collaborative efforts between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state-funded child care services
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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
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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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care
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Parental perception on the efficacy of a physical activity program for preschoolers
An evaluation of parental impressions of the usefulness, strengths, weaknesses, and influence on physical activities of The Food Friends Get Movin' with Mighty Moves obesity intervention, based on a survey of 51 parents of Head Start children in Colorado who participated in the intervention and telephone interviews with 37 of the survey respondents
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