Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low-income families?
An investigation of different welfare and employment programs with child care assistance policies and their effects on employment rates and child care decisions of 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
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 meets health care: What other states can teach us about insuring the child care workforce in Illinois
An exploration of program models for the provision of health insurance to early childhood workers, and recommendations for the development of a framework to provide health care coverage to early childhood workers in Illinois, based on case studies of programs currently implemented in California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina
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Child care, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
An analysis of welfare reform's design to move parents, including those with young children, into the labor force and the manifold issues that arise: child care choices and adequacy of choices, parental child care choice, and consumer education regarding welfare reform
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Child care preferences and choices: Are AFDC recipients unique?
An analysis of data concerning child care decisions, arrangements, and attitudes of single mothers entering the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in California
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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 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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Cracks in the seams: Durability of child care in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
An analysis of the integration of targeted child care subsidies and services and transitions for low-income participants in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) welfare-to-work program
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Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for preschool- and young school-aged children
An examination of the effects of welfare and employment policies on child care outcomes for single parents, and their preschool- to young school-aged children, using data from experimental programs implemented between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s
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The economic impact of child care in San Mateo County
A study of the role of child care in the economy of San Mateo County, California in the late 1990s, and a projection of the economic impacts of policy changes and local investment designed to support licensed care supply building in the county
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The economic impact of the early care and education industry in Los Angeles County
An analysis of the economic impact of the Los Angeles County, 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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Growing Up in Poverty Project
A longitudinal study of the effects of mothers moving from welfare-to-work on their economic well-being, home environment, child care quality and use, and their young children's early development
Major Research Projects
Hiring a nanny: The limits of private solutions to public problems
An investigation into the socioeconomic and cultural conflicts surrounding the hiring of a live-in child care worker, based on interviews with 155 families and their nannies in the New York and Los Angeles areas
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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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New lives for poor families?: Mothers and young children move through welfare reform: The Growing Up in Poverty Project: Wave 2 findings: California, Connecticut, and Florida: Technical report
A study of the long-term effects of welfare reform on mothers' employment, children's development, and family well-being among a sample of mothers and preschool-age children who entered new welfare programs in California, Connecticut, and Florida
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Remember the children: Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform: Growing Up in Poverty Project 2000: Wave 1 findings: California, Connecticut, Florida
A study of the employment, child care, and child outcomes of low-income single mothers, and their children, entering new welfare programs in California, Connecticut, and Florida in 1998
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