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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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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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The differential impact of early father and mother involvement on later student achievement An exploration of the links between early parental involvement and later student achievement, based on a subsample of 1,474 children and their fathers from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-CDS) |
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Does higher quality early child care promote low-income children's math and reading achievement in middle childhood? A longitudinal investigation of the role of attendance in high quality child care as a moderating factor between family economic status and children's academic success in elementary school, based on a sample of 1,364 children followed from birth to age 11 |
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Do neighborhood and home contexts help explain why low-income children miss opportunities to participate in activities outside of school? An examination of the role of children's neighborhood and home environments in the link between income disparities and participation rates in activities outside of elementary school, based on data collected from 1,420 children as part of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement |
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The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low-income households An examination of the net effect of national and statewide welfare reforms on low-income children’s math achievement scores in the decade following the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcilliation Act, based on a comparison of the data from low income and high income children both before and after welfare reform as reported in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) |
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Ethnic variation in the association between family structures and practices on child outcomes at 36 months: Results from Early Head Start An examination of the associations between children’s behavioral and cognitive outcomes, family structural characteristics, and parenting practices among three samples (a total of 2,777) low income families with European American, African American, and Hispanic American ethnicities |
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The factors related to preschool children and their mothers on children’s intuitional mathematics abilities An examination of factors related to preschool-aged children's intuitional mathematics abilities and mother's attitudes toward intuitional mathematical ability from the performance of 426 Istanbul children on a measure of intuitive mathematics thinking and questionnaire responses of their mothers |
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Fulfilling the promise of Preschool for All: Insights into issues affecting access for selected immigrant groups in Chicago A study of the barriers and opportunities to accessing Preschool for All, Illinois' universal preschool program, faced by lower-incidence immigrant groups in Chicago, based on two focus groups with Nigerian parents and two focus groups with Pakistani parents |
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Inequalities in attendance in organized early learning programmes in developing societies: Findings from household surveys An examination of variations in early learning program participation rates among children aged 3 through 6 in 52 developing countries, with an analysis of the links between participation rates and gender, age, place of residence, mother's education and household wealth, using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) |
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An investigation into the impact of revised eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) in the state of Rhode Island An investigation of the influence of revised eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) on the continued participation of Rhode Island families in the program and the ability of these families to procure child care, based on a survey of 95 families who lost all or some of their subsidies and 366 child care providers who provide services to families affected by the revisions |
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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education An exploration of the relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes, based on data from the 2000 census in Switzerland |
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Latinos' use, desire, and type of non-parental child care arrangements An analysis of the use, desire, and type of non-parental care among Latinos in the United States, based on data from a nationally representative sample of parents |
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A longitudinal examination of father involvement with children with developmental delays: Does timing matter? An examination of the association between father involvement and the time of children’s diagnosis of developmental delays, based on a subsample of children with developmental delays and their fathers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) |
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Low-income African American parents’ views about the value of play for their preschool age children in Head Start A qualitative study of 12 low-income African American mothers' beliefs about the value of play and its relationship to language development, critical thinking, and social competencies of their children attending Head Start in central Florida |
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Low-income Latino mothers’ booksharing styles and children’s emergent literacy development An examination the relationship between maternal booksharing styles and low-income Latino children’s language and literacy development based on data collected from 80 New York City area Latino Head Start mothers and their 4-year-old children as they read a wordless children’s picture book together in their homes |
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Maternal education, early child care and the reproduction of advantage A study of the relationship between maternal education and type, quality, and quantity of early child care arrangements used, based on a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal study of 1,127 children and thier families |
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Networks of attachment relationships in low-income children of Mexican heritage: Infancy through preschool A longitudinal exploration of attachment relationships between caregivers and children in families of Mexian heritage, based on a subsample of 83 children and their mothers who participated in a larger study and self-identified themselves as being of Mexican origin |
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Novel word learning of preschoolers enrolled in Head Start regular and bilingual classrooms: Impact of adult vocabulary noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading An examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading on children's expressive and receptive knowledge of target words and on two measures of vocabulary with 45 children enrolled in monolingual Head Start classrooms and an examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during storybook reading and parental home language use on expressive and receptive Spanish and English vocabulary of 28 children enrolled in English-Spanish bilingual Head Start classrooms |
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Parental engagement and barriers to participation in a community-based preventive intervention An examination of the relationship between parent characteristics and barriers to participation in a Head Start program with a sample of 201 parents from low-income and predominantly ethnic minority backgrounds |
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Parental involvement in children's schooling: Different meanings in different cultures A longitudinal comparison of the involvement of Chinese-American and European-American parents in the early education of their young children, with a focus on parent-child communication, parental opinions about curricula and school practices, and learning activities in the home, based on data collected from 40 children of European-American parents and 40 children of second-generation immigrants from Chinese-speaking countries all from middle-class Chicago area neighborhoods |
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Parental perceptions of characteristics of non-parental child care: Belief dimensions, family and child correlates A study of the value parents place on a selection of features of child care arrangements and skills taught to children in child care, and a study of correlations between these values and child and family characteristics, based on the questionnaire responses of 220 parents or guardians purchasing child care services in Southern Arizona |
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Parent perspectives on the first five years A study of parents' beliefs about and attitudes towards their children's first five years, including child care, school readiness, and preschool, based on four focus groups conducted in Oregon |
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