Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families
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Child care subsidies and child care markets: Evidence from three states
A study of the relationship of economic, demographic, and policy variables--with a focus on the influence of child care subsidy expenditures--to child care market prices in Oregon, based on an analysis of longitudinal county-level data, and a comparison of results from Oregon to the results of similar studies from California and Minnesota
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Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states
An empirical analysis of the effects of child care subsidies on recipients' transition times to substantial employment, using merged administrative data from Florida, Minnesota, and Connecticut's welfare reform evaluations
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Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states
An estimation of the effect of child care subsidies on single parent welfare recipients’ period of transition to substantial employment
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
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 for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies
First of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents
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Child care subsidies, Low-wage work and economic development
A longitudinal study of the employment and earnings of low income parents participating in Minnesota’s child care subsidy program and a comparison of their earnings by industry sector
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Child care through the eyes of parents, children and child care providers: Parents' experiences with the child care assistance program
Findings from a study of child care and public assistance practices and opinions among low- and middle-income parents who receive out-of-home child care and/or care-related financial assistance through Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)
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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia
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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009
An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules
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Evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program: Issue brief 2: Implementation in year 2
An evaluation of the second year of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system--that examined characteristics of participating children, families, programs, and communities, and the progress of implementation activities
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Evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program: Issue brief 3: Summary of implementation (year 3)
Findings from the third year of the pilot of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system
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Evaluation of School Readiness Connections pilot project: Final report
Findings from an evaluation of the School Readiness Connections (SRC) project - an initiative to provide incentives for early childhood programs that serve Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) participants to tailor their programs to support children's school readiness, and provide incentives for CCAP families to choose these programs - based on data from 14 child care centers and family child care programs and 364 children who participated in the SRC project
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Families affected by the loss of basic sliding fee child care assistance in 2003: Child protection, school attendance, wage status
An exploration of the well-being of families who no longer participated in the Basic Sliding Fee (BSF) child care assistance program in Minnesota, based on information on 492 families who were either terminated from or had a gap in participation in the BSF program
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Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies.
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies
A report on state-level child care assistance policies and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 2001, examining the impact of policies on families' access to care and child care choices.
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Getting and retaining child care assistance: How policy and practice influence parents experiences
A study of parents' interaction with the child care subsidy system and how state and local subsidy policies and practices affect parents' experiences. Particular attention is paid to the process of applying for and retaining subsidies.
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Labor force supply decisions of rural low-income mothers
A microeconomic study of the associations between both rural low income mothers' decision to work and number of hours worked and mother's individual characteristics, household characteristics, human capital, various household income sources including participation in child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and local economic conditions, based on data from 412 families from 23 counties in 13 states
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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families
A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States
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Minnesota Child Care Choices: Continuity of care and participation in the Child Care Assistance Program
A study of the characteristics, duration of continuous participation, and continuity of child care arrangements of participants in the child care subsidy program in Minnesota, based on child care subsidy voucher administrative data for 44,582 children from January 2009 through June 2010
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Mothers' views on child care under the JOBS program and implications for welfare reform
An account of a study on mother’s participating in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program, including program participation’s effects on their children and the factors that are creating substantive benefits for some children, based on two surveys of 357 JOBS participants in local sites in Minneapolis, New York, Oregon, and Texas
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Patterns of child care use among low-income families: Final report
A study of families' decisions regarding employment and child care arrangements, examining variations by child's age, mother's race, and other family characteristics, and assessing the impact of child care subsidies and other state and local policies on families' choices
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: State and Community Substudy: Final report
A study of ongoing changes in state and community policies for meeting the child care needs of low-income families as a result of welfare reform implementation, including child care subsidy use and expenditures from 1997 to 2001 and child care subsidy policies and their administration from 1999 to 2002, based on administrative records, policy manuals, and key informant interviews from 17 states and 25 communities
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Preliminary findings on the adequacy of child care funding from the child care case studies of the Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) Project
An inquiry into factors affecting the utilization of child care subsidies, based on interviews of and focus groups with parents, administrators, and policymakers at 17 sites in 12 states
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