Browse the Collection

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

Reports & Papers

Making a difference in the lives of infants and toddlers and their families: The impacts of Early Head Start: Executive summary
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, 2002
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A summary of 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 in 17 diverse sites across the US. Findings when children were 36 months of age, showed a pattern of positive, modest impacts across a wide range of child, parent-child and parent outcomes.

Executive Summary