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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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The availability of child care centers, perceived search costs and parental life satisfaction An investigation of the influence of the availability of child care on parents' perception of child care search costs and life satisfaction, based on data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and the National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC) |
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Born too soon: What can we expect?: Nature of home literacy experiences for children with very low birth weight An exploration of the home literacy experiences of children born with a very low birth weight and their influence on children?s literacy development, based on observations of and interviews with 16 families of 4-year old children born with a very low birthweight |
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility?: Evidence from a structural model An estimation of the influence of child care policies on female employment and pregnancy rates, based on data on over 11,000 households in Germany in 2006 |
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Can family-support policies explain differences in working hours across countries? An exploration of the role of public family-support programs in variations in mothers' working hours across countries, based on an analysis of household data from the European Household Panel (ECHP) and the United States Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1998 through 2001 |
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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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Cheaper child care, more children An exploration of the correlation between costs of child care, local and national policy reform, and women’s fertility decisions in Sweden |
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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 education in Oregon and its counties: 2008 An overview of the availability, costs, access, and utilization rates of child care services by families in Oregon |
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Childcare and family ideology in Sweden An investigation of the effect of child care supply, in conjunction with attitudes towards family structure, on individual childbearing decisions, based on national survey data from 2001 to 2003 |
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Childcare and labor force participation in the Netherlands: The importance of attitudes and opinions An econometric study of the relationship between attitudes towards both child care and labor force participation and the decision both to participate in the labor force and to use paid child care, based data from a subsample of mothers with preschool children from a survey of 737 mothers in the Netherlands in 2004 |
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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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Child Care Community Fund: Year 2 evaluation report Findings from the second year of a process and random-assignment outcome evaluation of the Child Care Community Fund--a program to lower families' child care expenses, increase and stabilize child care wages, and improve child care quality through child care subsidies, child care worker wage enhancements, and individualized technical assistance--based on program reports, provider and director surveys, parent surveys and interviews, and observations of child care settings |
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of unmarried women in urban China: 1982-2000 An exploration of the influence of location, the availability of child care and the availability care for the elderly or disabled on unmarried women's labor market participation decisions, based on data from three waves of the population census of China from 1982-2000 |
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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 childhood obesity An exploration of the relationship between child care subsidy receipt, subsidy policies, and children’s obesity, based on data from a sample of more than 21,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS)-K |
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity An exploration of the relationship between child care subsidy receipt, subsidy policies, and children’s obesity, based on data from a sample of more than 21,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS)-K |
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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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Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start An examination of the association between risk factors and the cognitive performance in children 1 to 3 years of age living in poverty and an investigation of the effects of Early Head Start on children’s cognitive skill performance, based on data from the Early Head Start (EHS) Research and Evaluation Project, a prospective study of 3,001 children and families living in poverty |
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Compromise in collaborating with families: Perspectives of beginning special education teachers An exploration of early childhood special education teachers’ practices and beliefs towards collaboration with families of children with disabilities, based on interviews with 11 teachers who graduated from a Master’s in Education program in Early Childhood Special Education at a Pacific Northwestern university |
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Connected kids at Head Start: Taking office-based violence prevention to the community A qualitative study of the acceptability and appropriateness of Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure, a violence prevention curriculum for Head Start, based on data from 8 focus groups with 63 parents and family advocates at 2 Head Start centers in Kansas City |
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Crossing the glass wall: Using preschool educators' knowledge to enhance parental understanding of children's self-regulation and emotion regulation An exploration of early childhood teachers' knowledge of children's socioemotional development and self-regulation, and a discussion of way to collaborate with parents to share such knowledge |
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