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Assessing costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs: Overview and applications to the Starting Early Starting Smart program
Karoly, Lynn A., 2001
Seattle: Casey Family Programs; Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A discussion of issues for policymakers to consider in assessing the direct, monetary costs and benefits to early childhood intervention programs, based on information from the assessment of Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS)

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Assessing costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs: Overview and application to the Starting Early Starting Smart program: Executive summary
Karoly, Lynn A., 2001
Seattle: Casey Family Programs; Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A report summarizing the methodological issues in developing a cost benefit analysis for early childhood programs and their implications for the Starting Early Starting Smart intervention.

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California's child care crisis: A crime prevention tragedy
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2001
Washington, DC: Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)

A review and analysis of research findings on the relationship between child care and reduced crime rates in California, with an emphasis on program quality and the need for public investment

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Child care and its impact on California's economy: Executive summary and policy recommendations
National Economic Development and Law Center (U.S.), 2001
Oakland, CA: National Economic Development and Law Center.

A summary of an exploration of the economic impact of the licensed child care market in California

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Child care costs and lone mothers' employment rates: UK evidence
Jenkins, Stephen P., 2001
The Manchester School, 69(2), 121-147

A study of the significance of child care costs on single British mothers' decisions to return to employment, using data from the Lone Parents Survey

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Child care, women's labour market participation and labour market policy effectiveness in Canada
White, Linda A., 2001
Canadian Public Policy, 27(4), 385-405

An analysis of the effects of labor and child care policies on women's labor force participation in Canada

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Directions for cost and outcome analysis of Starting Early Starting Smart: Summary of a cost expert meeting
Cannon, Jill S., 2001
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A document reporting on a meeting convened by RAND on behalf of the Casey Family Programs (CFP) and the Office of Early Childhood, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to discuss issues related to cost-benefit analysis of the Starting Early Starting Smart program

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Early childhood education
Barnett, W. Steven, 2001
In A. Molnar (Ed.), School reform proposals: The research evidence (pp. 7-34). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

A compendium of the benefits of early childhood education and care to children and society at large, with recommendations for improving quality

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Early Childhood Education Programs
Currie, Janet, 2001
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(2), 213-238

A review of the evidence on the effects of center-based early childhood education programs for preschool children.

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Early Excellence Centre pilot programme: Annual evaluation report 2000
Bertram, Tony, February 2001
(Research Brief No. RB 258). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Employment.

A summary of an evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot program, discussing early evidence on functioning, program effectiveness, program design and implementation, and highlighting key issues for future development and improvements

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Early Excellence Centre pilot programme: Annual evaluation report 2000
Bertram, Tony, February 2001
(Research Report No. 258). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Employment.

An evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot program, discussing early evidence on functioning, program effectiveness, program design and implementation, and highlighting key issues for future development and improvements

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The economic impact of the child care industry in California
Moss, Steven, Fall 2001
Oakland, CA: National Economic Development and Law Center.

An analysis of the economic impact of the California child care and early education industry in terms of its employment and gross receipts, as well as its role in supporting other industries and labor force participation

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The effect of child care costs on the labor force participation and welfare recipiency of single mothers: Implications for welfare reform
Connelly, Rachel, March 2001
(WP01-69). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

A study of the effects of child care costs on single mothers' labor force participation and welfare recipiency decisions, based on data from the nationally representative Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 1992 and 1993 Panels

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Evaluating the costs and benefits of early childhood programmes
Pascal, Christine, 2001
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 9(2), 21-44

A discussion outlining the need for the development of measures to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of child care

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A longitudinal case study of Head Start eligible children: Implications for urban education
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana, 2001
Educational Psychologist, 36(1), 31-44

A longitudinal case study following a group of African American Head Start children and their matched peers from 1965 to 1978, focusing on relationships between educational goal setting during adolescence and early childhood behavioral attributes, parental and home background, early childhood teachers, standardized achievement test performance, and elementary and middle school grade feedback

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Long-term effects of an early childhood intervention on educational achievement and juvenile arrest: A 15-year follow-up of low-income children in public schools
Reynolds, Arthur J., 2001
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 285(18), 2239-2346

An article on the effects of the Chicago Child Parent Center Program, a comprehensive early intervention for children from low-income families, on school outcomes and juvenile arrests fifteen years postprogram.

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Research to inform the evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot programme
Pascal, Christine, February 2001
(Research Brief NO. 259). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Employment.

A summary of a report on the findings from the first evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot program, discussing the foundation of the program's development, a cost benefit analysis of the program, and the findings from the evaluation of the program's effectiveness

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Research to inform the evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot programme
Pascal, Christine, February 2001
(Research Report No. 259). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Employment.

A report on the findings from the first evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot program, discussing the foundation of the program's development, a cost benefit analysis of the program, and the findings from the evaluation of the program's effectiveness

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