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			2010 comprehensive community assessment: Head Start programs: Whom do we serve? Denver (Colo.). Mayor's Office for Education and Children, 2010 Denver, CO: Denver, Mayor's Office for Education and Children. A summary of an examination of the characteristics of children and families served by Head Start in Denver, Colorado	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			2010 comprehensive community assessment: Overview of children, families, and language groups: The Denver community context Denver (Colo.). Mayor's Office for Education and Children, 2010 Denver, CO: Denver, Mayor's Office for Education and Children. A summary of an examination of the characteristics of children and families in Denver, Colorado	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			2010 comprehensive community assessment: Reaching out to the low income families and children in the neighborhoods: Early Head Start and Head Start eligible populations Denver (Colo.). Mayor's Office for Education and Children, 2010 Denver, CO: Denver, Mayor's Office for Education and Children. A summary of an examination of the characteristics of the Head Start-eligible population in Denver, Colorado	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			2011 District of Columbia early childhood risk and reach assessment Moodie, Shannon, Washington, DC: District of Columbia, Office of Early Childhood Education. An examination of the geographic distribution in the District of Columbia of family risk indicators, children's reading and math proficiency, and early childhood programs	Other
			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
			Accumulated experience, quality of services, family characteristics and development of three-year-old children in various types of child care beginning in the first year of life: Summary Bigras, Nathalie, November 2009 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Council on Learning. A summary of an inquiry into the relationship between child care quality, and family characteristics during a child's first year, and children's development at age 36 months	Executive Summary
			Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare Borck, Rainald, January 2011 (CESifo Working Paper No. 3337). Munich, Germany: CESifo. A presentation and discussion of a cross-national model of the relationships among fertility, female labor force participation, child care provision, and the gender wage gap	Reports & Papers
			Adult-child processes and early schooling Pianta, Robert C., 1997 Early Education and Development, 8(1), 11-26 A discussion on the relationship of school outcomes to social processes	Reports & Papers
			The adult worker model family, gender equality and care: The search for new policy principles and the possibilities and problems of a capabilities approach Lewis, Jane, 2005 Economy and Society, 34(1), 76-104 A discussion of principles involved in the theoretical shift towards the adult worker model, involving assumptions of increased individualization and self-sufficiency, especially with regards to women	Reports & Papers
			Afterschool programs help working families Afterschool Alliance, 2003 (Afterschool Alert Issue Brief No. 16). Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance. An issue brief outlining how quality after school programs help working parents balance both work and family life	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Airlines, flight attendants, and dependent care Desrosiers, Alyce, January, 1997 Portland, OR: Portland State University. An investigation into the relationship between child care arrangements of flight attendants and their absenteeism, based on a survey of 113 flight attendants with dependent care responsibilities based out of Oregon	Reports & Papers
			Allocation of time to preschool children and educational opportunity Hill, C. Russell, 1974 Journal of Human Resources, 9(3), 323-341 A study of the relationships among child and parent interaction time, child and family characteristics and child cognitive and social development	Reports & Papers
			Alternate child care options: Preferences of the hill community Ahuja, Abba, 2000 International Journal of Early Childhood, 32(2), 91-96 An exploration of the child care needs of women living in a rural upland hill area in India	Reports & Papers
			American child care today Scarr, Sandra, 1998 American Psychologist, 53(2), 95-108 A discussion of the current state of child care in America from the perspective of two disparate goals: the first fostering mothers� employment and the second children�s development; these two ends demand compromise between the affordability of child care and the ever increasing costliness of new regulations	Other
			American grandparents providing extensive child care to their grandchildren: Prevalence and profile Fuller-Thomson, Esme, 2001 The Gerontologist, 41(2), 201-209 An examination of the prevalence and profile of grandparent care from 1992-1994 National Survey of Families and Households	Reports & Papers
			An analysis of women's return-to-work decisions following first birth Barrow, Lisa, 1999 Economic Inquiry, 37(3), 432-451 An examination of the economic determinants of a woman�s decision to return to work within one year after childbirth	Reports & Papers
			Appendix 4: A guide to understanding state child care subsidy programs through analysis of public and non-public use datasets Zanoni Lopez, Wladimir, August 2009 New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections A guide to using survey data from the Census Bureau and administrative data generated by state child care subsidy and other programs to study child care subsidy take-up rates and the relationship between parental employment and child care subsidy receipt	Other
			Assessing the optimal length of parental leave for child and parental well-being: How can research inform policy? Galtry, Judith, 2005 Journal of Family Issues, 26(2), 219-246 A review of literature on concerns associated with parental leave, encompassing mothers' labor market outcomes, childbirth and maternal recovery, parent-infant bonding, children�s cognitive development, breastfeeding, and gender equity objectives	Literature Review
			Assessing risk: Descriptive data related to risk factors experienced by young children and their families in Illinois Thomas, Dawn V., June, 2012 (Technical Report No. 2). Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map. An examination of the geographic distribution in Illinois of child and family risk indicators and of early childhood program availability, based on analyses of secondary and administrative data	Reports & Papers
			Attachment in daily separations: Reconceptualizing day care and maternal employment issues Anderson, Christine W., 1980 Child Development, 51(1), 242-245 A study of the impact of daily mother-child separations and multiple caregivers on development and maintenance of attachment	Other
			Attitudes toward the employment of mothers of preschoolers: Implications for child care Henderson, Laura W., 1993 Child & Youth Care Forum, 2(1), 23-42 A discussion of attitudes towards maternal employment, child care and implications on policy	Reports & Papers
			Attitudes towards child support and knowledge of the Child Support Agency, 2004 Peacey, Victoria, 2004 London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions. Highlights from a study exploring public opinions and attitudes towards child support and the Child Support Agency in England	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Attitudes towards child support and knowledge of the Child Support Agency, 2004 [Executive summary] Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, 2004 (Research Report No. 226). Leeds, United Kingdom: Corporate Document Services. A summary of a study of changes in attitudes concerning non-resident parents' financial responsibility to children since 2000 in the United Kingdom	Executive Summary
			The availability of child care and mothers' employment in West Germany Kreyenfeld, Michaela, December 1999 (Discussion Papers 191). Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung (German Institute for Economic Research). An exploration of the links between parents' access to affordable, quality child care and maternal employment rates in West Germany, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) on households with at least one child under age 12	Reports & Papers
			The availability of child care centers in China and its impact on child care and maternal work decisions Kilburn, M. Rebecca, December, 2002 (Labor and Population Program Working Paper Series 00-20, DRU-2824-NIH). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation. A study of the relationship of child care center availability in China to maternal employment and child care use, based on data from the longitudinal China Health and Nutrition Survey	Reports & Papers

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