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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2002
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.), 2002
Washington, DC: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

Highlights from a 2002 national survey depicting the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education

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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2003
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.), 2003
Washington, DC: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

Highlights from a 2003 national survey depicting the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education

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Assessing the New Federalism: Eight years later
Golden, Olivia, 2005
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A compilation of findings from Assessing the New Federalism (ANF), a longitudinal survey-based project analyzing the effects of welfare reform in 1997, 1999, and 2002

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Attitudes toward child support and the Child Support Agency
Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, 2002
(In-House Report No. 100). London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions.

An exploration of attitudes towards the child support system in England, and a description of proposed reforms to the system

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Child care: Child care subsidies increase likelihood that low-income mothers will work
United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994
(GAO/HEHS-95-20). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

A report on the effects of subsidized child care on mothers' workforce participation

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Child care, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
Meyers, Marcia K., 1995
Social Service Review, 69(4), 679-702

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?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1992
Social Work Research & Abstracts, 28(1), 28-34

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 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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Childcare subsidies and the transition from welfare to work
Danziger, Sandra K., 2003
(National Poverty Center Working Paper Series No. 03-11). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, National Poverty Center.

A study of the role of subsidies in parental transitions from welfare to the workforce in Michigan, using post-1996 data from The Women’s Employment Study (WES)

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Child care subsidy, child care costs, and employment of low-income single mothers
Ahn, Haksoon, February, 2012
Children and Youth Services Review, 34(2), 379-387

An analysis of the relationship between welfare reform and child care costs among low income single mothers, and the correlation between post reform child care subsidy receipt and the status and duration of these mothers' employment, based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, 1993, 1996, and 2001 panels

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Child day care and the employment of AFDC recipients with preschool children
Bowen, Gary, 1993
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 14(1), 49-69

An investigation of the role of subsidized child care in reducing welfare participation among families with preschool-aged children in the United States

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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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The effect of welfare guarantees on children's educational attainment
Butler, Amy C., 1990
Social Science Research, 19(2), 175-203

An assessment of the impact of Aid to Families with Dependent Children welfare levels on academic achievement and grade level completion in teenage children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families

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Effects of child-care programs on women's work effort
Heckman, James J., 1974
Journal of Political Economy, 82(2), S136-S163

A statistical analysis of the value of nonworking mothers' time as well as labor force participation, hours-of-work and welfare program losses due to child care subsidy programs in the United States

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Effects of employment-based programs on families by prior levels of disadvantage
Alderson, Desiree Principe, September, 2008
Social Service Review, 82(3), 361-394

A study of the effects of employment-based programs on maternal depression, usage of home- and center-based child care , child test scores, parent-child interactions, and child behavior, based on a secondary analysis of data from 6 experimental studies of low income families at several levels of disadvantage

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The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low-income households
Miller, Amalia R., 2009
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28(4), 577-599

An examination of the net effect of national and statewide welfare reforms on low-income children’s math achievement scores in the decade following the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcilliation Act, based on a comparison of the data from low income and high income children both before and after welfare reform as reported in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

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The evaluation of welfare reform in Iowa: Final impact report
Iowa. Department of Human Services. Division of Financial, Health and Work Supports, 2002
Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.

An evaluation of changes in welfare reform policies encouraging employment-oriented participation in Iowa

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Impacts of eligibility expansions and provider reimbursement rate increases on child care subsidy take-up rates, welfare use and work
Witte, Ann D., 2003
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 9693). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

An assessment of the influence of expanded child care subsidy eligibility and increased provider reimbursement rates on demand for care, cash assistance receipt, and employment among current and former welfare recipients in Rhode Island

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The impacts of welfare reform on children: The Indiana welfare reform evaluation
Indiana. Division of Family and Children, 2002
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

An evaluation of the impacts of welfare reform on children in Indiana

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Labor force supply decisions of rural low-income mothers
Mammen, Sheila, March, 2009
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 30(1), 67-79

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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Left behind or staying away?: Eligible parents who remain off TANF
Zedlewski, Sheila R., 2002
(Series B, No. B-51). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

An overview of eligible single parents who do not participate in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

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Life after welfare: Women, work, and repeat dependency
Harris, Kathleen, 1996
American Sociological Review, 61(3), 407-426

A study of single mothers who have been enrolled on welfare between 1983 and 1988 to determine the permanency of independence from welfare once they have left the social program, including exploration of factors such as social isolation, child care responsibilities, human capital, and family economic status

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Losing the safety net: How a time-limited welfare policy affects families at risk of reaching time limits
Morris, Pamela A., March 2009
Developmental Psychology, 45(2), 383-400

An account of the development of a risk index for single mothers at risk of reaching the time limit of a welfare program, and a study of the effect of welfare transition time limits on child care choice, parental employment and income, quality of home environment, parental aggravation and depression, parenting harshness, parental monitoring of children, children's health, behavior, and engagement and achievement in school, among families likely to reach welfare time limits, based on data collected in Escambia County, Florida during the implementation of the state's Family Transition Program (FTP)

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Making work pay for Iowa's families
Fass, Sarah, September 2008
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

An examination of the importance of work support policies to covering the basic expenses of low-income working families in Iowa, based on a simulation of public benefits' effects on a hypothetical family's income

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Maternalism redefined: Gender, the state, and the politics of day care, 1945-1962
Zylan, Yvonne, 2000
Gender & Society, 14(5), 608-629

An exploration of the relationship between publicly funded child care policies and welfare program policies in the United States

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