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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			An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program Rodriguez, Linda, 2002 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program	Reports & Papers
			Building momentum--taking action: Southern states collaborate on child care financial aid and quality initiatives Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A summary of efforts to implement the Southern Regional Task Force on Child Care Action plan to improve access to child care assistance for low income families in the South, based on a survey of Task Force members and summaries of a regional child care forum and state site visits	Reports & Papers
			Child Care and Development Fund: Undercover tests show five state programs that are vulnerable to fraud and abuse United States. Government Accountability Office, September 2010 (GAO-10-1062). Washington, DC: United States, Government Accountability Office. Findings from an undercover investigation of the vulnerabilities of states' fraud prevention controls for child care assistance eligibility and billing in 5 states, and an inquiry into the influence of a lack of child care on the ability of parents to maintain employment	Reports & Papers
			The child care and employment decision-making processes of expecting parents Johnson, Elizabeth, 2001 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin A study of the child care and employment decision making processes of expecting parents	Reports & Papers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 disruptions and working mothers: An experience sampling method approach Foster, Jessica Bigazzi, 2003 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Rice University, Houston, TX A study using an experience sampling method to examine child care related interruptions for employed mothers with children in child care, and effects of these interruptions on employment	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 experiences in low-income communities: Developmental quality and maternal views Li-Grining, Christine P., 2006 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 125-141 A study of child care quality in low-income urban communities, including types of child care used and degree to which settings met children�s and mothers� needs, based on data from a longitudinal welfare study: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study	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 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
			Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity Kontos, Susan, 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 386-403 A study of the role of family variables like ethnicity and income in the choice between family or relative child care arrangements, and the relationship between family variables and child care provider behavior and quality	Reports & Papers
			Cross-sectional predictors of reading to young children among participants in the Texas WIC program Harris, Karol Kaye, Spring 2007 Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 21(3), 254-268 An analysis of survey data from a sample of 600 mothers visiting selected Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics in Texas in 2003, on their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors concerning reading to their young children	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
			Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development? Coley, Rebekah L., January, 2013 Child Development, 84(1), 178-197 An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform	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
			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
			Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in Harris County, Texas Olson, Jerome A., June 2002 Austin: University of Texas at Austin, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources. An identification of the economic, personal, and policy variables influencing employment and earnings among recipients of subsidized child care in Harris County, Texas, during a period of welfare reform	Reports & Papers
			Employment outcomes for low-income families receiving child care subsidies in Illinois, Maryland, and Texas Goerge, Robert, August 18, 2009 Chicago: University of Chicago. Chapin Hall Center for Children A study of the relationship between child care subsidy use and employment outcomes, and an identification of factors associated with child care subsidy use among eligible low income families, based on analysis of administrative and census data collected in Illinois, Maryland, and Texas	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of effectiveness of subsidized child care program: Report to the 79th Texas Legislature Texas Workforce Commission, 2005 Austin: Texas Workforce Commission. An study of Texas labor code 302.0043 and the impacts of its subsidy policies on maintaining parental employment	Reports & Papers
			Family-school connectedness and children's early social development Serpell, Zewelanji Natashya, February, 2012 Social Development, 21(1), 21-46 An examination of the relationship between the qualities of family-school interactions and teacher ratings of child social abilities, and an examination of the moderating influences of family characteristics, based on data collected from 2966 children, their parents, their preschool teachers, and some of their kindergarten teachers	Reports & Papers

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