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			Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, January, 2007 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers	Reports & Papers
			All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten Schumacher, Rachel, 2005 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states conducted by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), which examined the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community based child care providers as part of the states' prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			All together now: State experiences in using community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten Schumacher, Rachel, 2005 Paper presented at the the Brookings Institution-University of North Carolina conference on Creating a national plan for the education of 4-year-olds, Washington, DC. A discussion of the findings from a survey of 29 states that examines the policies, opportunities, and challenges associated with including community-based child care providers in states' prekindergarten programs	Reports & Papers
			America After 3PM Afterschool Alliance, October 2009 Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance. A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households	Reports & Papers
			Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report United States. Office of Head Start, 12 December, 2011 Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start. An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents	Reports & Papers
			The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States Brandon, Peter D., 2004 International Migration, 42(2), 65-87 A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families	Reports & Papers
			Child care center quality differences: The role of profit status, client preferences, and trust Morris, John R., 2000 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(3), 377-399 An investigation of the view that in a mixed child care industry providing services to poorly informed customers, for-profit producers provide lower quality care than non-profit producers by skimping on quality characteristics that buyers cannot easily observe	Reports & Papers
			Child-care use among welfare mothers: A dynamic analysis Wolf, Douglas A., 1991 Journal of Family Issues, 12(4), 519-536 A study of welfare mothers' child care arrangements and usage trends, particularly the durability of child care arrangements in relationship to child care type and cost, and mothers� subjective ratings of quality and their impact on the probability of changing or ending their current child care arrangements	Reports & Papers
			A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 31, 2010 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care	Reports & Papers
			Comprehensive school reform: An implementation study of preschool programs in elementary schools Desimone, Laura, 2004 Elementary School Journal, 104(5), 369-389 A discussion of the implementation of preschool programs in elementary schools, based on information gathered from focus group interviews with 42 preschool and kindergarten teachers and 53 parents from 10 schools in 5 states	Reports & Papers
			Cost functions, efficiency, and quality in day care centers Mocan, H. Naci, 1997 Journal of Human Resources, 32(4), 861-891 A study contrasting the quality and efficiency of profit and nonprofit child care providers with differing amounts of child care experience	Reports & Papers
			The Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., Denver, CO: Center for Research on Economic and Social Policy A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's experiences in center-based care and school and their social, emotional and cognitive outcomes	Major Research Projects
			The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start programs are reaching out to kith and kin caregivers: Final interim report Paulsell, Diane, 2006 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A preliminary descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, analyzing participant characteristics and program design as they affect the extension of home visitation services to relatives and non-relatives caring for infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs	Reports & Papers
			Examining the psychometric properties of the Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition in a high-stakes context Bisceglia, Rossana, Q2 2009 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(2), 121-132 An evaluation of the psychometric properties, the factor structure, and several subsets of questions of the Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R) in 153 classrooms in 59 Colorado child care centers that are allocated resources based on center performance	Reports & Papers
			Family child care homes and the CACFP: Participation after reimbursement tiering: An interim report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study Food Assistance & Nutrition Research (Program : U.S.), 1999 (Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. 3). Washington, DC: U.S. Food Assistance & Nutrition Research Program. An inquiry into the participation rates of family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)	Reports & Papers
			Final results of survey of CACFP family day care home providers on possible upcoming menu changes and implementation Meadow, Miranda, June, 2011 Denver: Colorado, Child and Adult Care Food Program. A study of the attitudes of family child care providers in Colorado toward proposed menu changes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), based on survey responses from 451 providers	Reports & Papers
			Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement Reschke, Kathy L., 2006 Journal of Children & Poverty, 12(2), 159-174 An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities	Reports & Papers
			Measuring child-staff ratios in child care centers: Balancing effort and representativeness Le, Vi-Nhuan, 2006 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(3), 267-279 An examination of the effectiveness of methods used to measure child-staff ratios in child care center classrooms, comparing ratio data from a single classroom over a short period of time with ratio data from multiple classrooms over longer periods of time	Reports & Papers
			Nonprofit sector and part-time work: An analysis of employer-employee matched data of child care workers Mocan, H. Naci, December 2001 (Discussion Paper No. 408). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor. An inquiry into the variance in wages between child care workers in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors and between full-time and part-time workers, and an exploration of differences in attitudes of teachers in each sector, based on data from 398 centers from 4 states, and surveys of teachers from a subsample of 2 randomly selected classrooms in each center	Reports & Papers
			Non-profit sector and part-time work: An analysis of employer-employee matched data on child care workers Mocan, H. Naci, 2003 The Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(1), 38-50 An investigation of the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care, in a sample of 398 child care centers in four states	Reports & Papers
			Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August, 2011 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states	Reports & Papers
			Promoting quality services for preschoolers with special needs in community-based programs DeHaas-Warner, Sarah Jane, 1996 Child & Youth Care Forum, 25(3), 155-163 A study of the quality of services provided by Colorado's community-based child care settings for special needs children; public policy and service delivery decision making processes are discussed	Reports & Papers
			Quality-adjusted cost functions for child-care centers Mocan, H. Naci, 1995 The American Economic Review, 85(2), 409-413 An investigation of efficiency and quality standards in full-time year-round for-profit and non-profit child care centers in four states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina)	Reports & Papers
			Stable prevalence but changing risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome in child care settings in 2001 Moon, Rachel Y., 2005 Pediatrics, 116(4), 972-977 A retrospective study of all cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) occurring in one year, comparing the deaths that occurred in child care environments with the deaths that occurred during parental care	Reports & Papers
			Supporting family, friend and neighbor caregivers: Findings from a survey of state policies Porter, Toni, 2005 New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012) An examination of state regulatory policies for kith and kin child care providers receiving government subsidies	Reports & Papers

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