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			2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012 (OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6	Reports & Papers
			An assessment of the parent engagement and skills-building system in Miami-Dade DCA, Inc., June 04, 2008 Battle Creek, MI: W.K. Kellogg Foundation. An examination of early childhood education and care system supports for parental engagement and the development of parenting skills, based on interviews with early childhood educators and referral organizations, an analysis of a child care provider database, and focus groups with 121 parents in Miami-Dade County, Florida	Reports & Papers
			Barriers and facilitators of service use by low-income families with young children: A brief report from the Palm Beach County Family Study Spielberger, Julie, 2012 Chicago: University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children. Findings on early childhood service use and experiences from a longitudinal study of high-risk families in Palm Beach County, Florida, based on annual interviews with 531 families and on in-depth interviews and observations with a subsample of 40 families	Reports & Papers
			Challenges and strategies for early childhood special education services in Florida's rural schools: A DELPHI study Weiss, Keith E., 1996 Journal of Research in Rural Education, 12(1), 33-43 A study identifying the problems facing rural educational service providers that hinder their ability to serve special needs children 3 to 5 years of age, utilizing the Delphi technique, which incorporated two rounds of questionnaires to generate responses and develop agreement from a panel of rural service providers in Florida	Reports & Papers
			Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform Queralt, Magaly, 2000 Social Service Review, 74(4), 588-619 A study that examines the employment and earnings of current and former recipients of welfare benefits and child care subsidies and assesses the impact of increased funding for child care and other policy changes.	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families Mitchell, Anne W., 1992 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families	Reports & Papers
			Child care expenses of America's families Giannarelli, Linda, 2000 (Occasional Paper No. 40). Washington, DC: Urban Institute. A study of the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13, with particular attention to low-income families.	Reports & Papers
			Child care in poor communities: Early learning effects of type, quality, and stability Loeb, Susanna, 2003 (NBER Working Paper Series No. 9954). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. A study on the influence of child care type, quality, and stability on the social and cognitive development of the preschool children of low-income single mothers	Reports & Papers
			Child care in rural areas: Top challenges Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. 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	Reports & Papers
			Child care quality: Centers and home settings that serve poor families Fuller, Bruce, 2004 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(4), 505-527 A multi-site, longitudinal study examining the quality of child care settings chosen by low-income mothers enrolled in welfare-to-work programs	Reports & Papers
			Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states Cochi Ficano, Carlena K., May 2006 The Review of Policy Research, 23(3), 681-698 An estimation of the effect of child care subsidies on single parent welfare recipients� period of transition to substantial employment	Reports & Papers
			Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies Adams, Gina, 2006 Washington, DC: Urban Institute. 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	Reports & Papers
			Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers Tekin, Erdal, 2002 Unpublished manuscript, Georgia State University, Atlanta 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	Reports & Papers
			Child care, subsidy receipt and state of residence: Comparisons by age and parent work schedule Georges, Annie, December 2001 Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November A study of the differences in child care arrangements as it relates to costs of care and state of residence among children in families eligible for subsidies	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund 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	Reports & Papers
			Child, family, and childcare predictors of delayed school entry and kindergarten retention among linguistically and ethnically diverse children Winsler, Adam, September, 2012 Developmental Psychology, 48(5), 1299-1314 A study of potential predictors of both delayed entry into kindergarten and kindergarten retention, including child characteristics, family characteristics, and child care participation, based on a sample of 13,191 ethnically and linguistically diverse at risk children that participated in The Miami School Readiness Project	Reports & Papers
			The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA Blau, David M., October 2007 Journal of Population Economics, 20(4), 719-741 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)	Reports & Papers
			Determinants of household participation in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten program Nores, Milagros, December, 2011 New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research. A study of the relationship of child and family characteristics, including program awareness, to participation in Florida's publicly funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program, based on a survey of 1,305 randomly selected parents or legal guardians with children aged 4 and 5	Reports & Papers
			Early intervention: The moderating role of the home environment Bradley, Robert H., 2001 Applied Developmental Science, 5(1), 2-8 An examination of the effect of young children's home environments on the impact of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program designed for at risk children from low income families	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			Economic volatility and expulsion in U.S. child care settings: A multi-state survey Southward, Linda H., 2006 Mississippi State: Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center. Studies of the economic vulnerability of American child care centers and expulsion of children for parental nonpayment or changes in voucher status, based on a random sample of 807 child care centers in five states	Reports & Papers
			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)	Reports & Papers
			The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers Gassman-Pines, Anna, 2003 (Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 19). New York: MDRC. A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida�s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota�s Family Investment Program (MFIP)	Reports & Papers
			Evaluating the efficacy of the Parents Activate Literacy Skills (PALS) program Corbisiero, Amii M., 2009 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 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	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of a personal safety program with Latino preschoolers Kenny, Maureen C., July/August 2012 Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 21(4), 368-385 A study of the impact of a personal safety educational program designed for Latino families on Latino children's knowledge of general safety and sexual abuse, on their ability to better distinguish between inappropriate and appropriate touching, to learn the correct names of their genitals, and to understand that potential abusers can be people they know and like, based on data from 78 children in Miami-Dade County in Florida	Reports & Papers

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