Before Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences, and child development [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 127-139). New York: Guilford Press
A description of demographic, family context, income, and developmental characteristics of Head Start children and their families at 3 years of age, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care
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California's young children: Demographic, social, and economic conditions
Reed, Deborah, 2002
California Counts: Population Trends and Profiles, 4(2).
An overview of the social and economic well-being of young children as it relates to parental education, employment, family income, and health insurance in California
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CDSS-PACE Child Care Planning Project: Descriptive findings from the child care subsidy interview
Hirshberg, Diane, 2002
(Working Paper Series 02-2). Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.
A survey of of current and former CalWORKs participants on subsidy use and child care selection in California
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Change in family income-to-needs matters more for children with less
Dearing, Eric, November/December 2001
Child Development, 72(6), 1779-1793
An examination of changes in family income-to-needs and its effect on young children's cognitive, language, and behavioral development and outcomes using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Characteristics of families enrolled in an isolated, mountain Head Start program: Managing social capital
Harr, Judith, 2001
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 24(2), 117-135
A study of Head Start participating families in a geographically-isolated community in California, identifying their educational, religious, financial and neighborhood characteristics
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Child care and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
United States. Government Accountability Office, 2006
(GAO-06-807). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office.
A study examining access to, participation in, and efforts to assist with child care for families with limited English proficiency, based on analysis of national data sets, focus groups with parents, state and county site visits, and interviews with officials and experts
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Child care and family predictors of preschool attachment and stability from infancy [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 208-223). New York: Guilford Press
An abridged version of an analysis of the relationship between family factors and infant and toddler child care experiences and preschool attachment, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care
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Child care and mother-child interaction in the first 3 years of life [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 231-245). New York: Guilford Press
A study of the interaction between child care quality, stability, amount and mother-child relatedness in the first 3 years of life
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Child care as poverty policy: The effects of child care on work and family poverty
Press, Julie E., 2000
In Prismatic metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (pp. 338-382). New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.
A discussion of the role of child care arrangements in parents’ decision to work and familial poverty, based on a subsample from the Los Angeles Study of Urban Inequality
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Child care choices of Hispanic families: Why aren't families using center care?
Daugherty, Lindsay, 2010
(RGSD-258). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pardee Rand Graduate School, Santa Monica,
CA.
An examination of the relationship between families? access to child care by relatives, access to child care centers, and the role of language barriers in child care decisions by Hispanic families, based on data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) on children aged birth through 5 and not enrolled in kindergarten
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Child care demand and supply under CalWORKS: The early impacts of welfare reform for California's children, 1998-2000
Hirshberg, Diane, 2002
(Working Paper Series 02-3). Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.
An overview of the effects of welfare reform and capacity building efforts on the supply and demand of child care in California
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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.
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Child care fiscal policy analysis: Analyzing options to focus the state's existing resources to serve the state's neediest families
Wright, Michael A., 2001
Sacramento: California State and Consumer Services Agency.
An analysis of how hypothetical changes to child care eligibility, fee, and subsidy policies in California would affect the state's ability to provide child care for children from low-income families
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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
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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
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Child care practices of Mexican-American working mothers: A pilot study
Alcalay, Rina, 1996
International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 16(2), 155-174
A study of the child care practices and access barriers to child care for forty-five working mothers of Mexican-American descent living in northern California, based on focus group discussions
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Child care preferences among low-income minority families
Becerra, Rosina, 1992
International Social Work, 35(1), 35-47
A study of the similarities and differences of the actual use and preferences of child care arrangements available for infants and toddlers among low-income minority families
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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
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
Meyers, Marcia K., 2002
Demography, 39(1), 165-179
A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their labor market activity
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
Meyers, Marcia K., 1999
(Working Paper No. 15). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance.
A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their employment.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Child day care in welfare reform: Are we targeting too narrowly?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1995
Child Welfare, 74(6), 1071-1080
A study of whether California participants in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program are encountering reduced access to public child care subsidies because of public policy decisions to narrow and restrict eligibility; the data was collected through analysis of survey results from subsamples drawn from a random sample of 15,000 cases stratified over four counties
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