Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform
A study that examines the employment and earnings of current and former recipients of welfare benefits and child care subsidies and assesses the impact of increased funding for child care and other policy changes.
Reports & Papers
Child care and welfare reform
An overview the evolution of federal child care subsidy policy since 1996, a discussion of the use of subsidized child care among low-income populations, and an identification of possible themes in the debate over the reauthorization of federal funds for the subsidy, expansion, and improvement of child care and early education services
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child care assistance in 2005: State cuts continue
An overview of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds that states devoted to child care spending in 2005
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Early childhood education: An economic development strategy
A brief on papers viewing investment in early childhood education as an economic development strategy
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Executive summary: The incentives of government programs and the well-being of families
A synthesis of the conference proceedings on incentives of government programs and the well being of poor families
Executive Summary
Impact of free primary education on early childhood development in Kenya
An overview of the benefits and policy implications of free primary school education provision in Kenya
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Sampling errors and confidence intervals for order statistics: Implementing the Family Support Act and welfare reform
A study of child care market rates across the state of Massachusetts in 1993 and 1994, including a statistical analysis of child care subsidy reimbursement percentiles and issues involved in calculating those percentiles
Reports & Papers
The Senate's $6 billion child care provision: A critical, but modest investment
An article supporting the approval of a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization bill that would increase funding to child care assistance for low income families by $6 billion
Other
Spending inequalities for children's programs in Texas
A study of expenditure inequalities in funding patterns of noneducational programs for children and youth in Texas emphasizing measures of expenditure inequalities for a variety of programs such as income support, nutrition, child care, juvenile justice programs, and several social and psychological services
Reports & Papers
States are cutting TANF and child care programs: Supports for low-income working families and welfare-to-work programs are particularly hard hit
An informational table-formatted report detailing state funding cuts in government aided child care programs; each state is described in terms of which programs are being affected and how the program is affected
Other
The Texas child care subsidy program after devolution to the local level: A product of the Study of Child Care Devolution in Texas
A report analyzing the devolution of subsidized child care policies and program management to local workforce development boards in Texas from 1998 to 2003
Reports & Papers
The Texas child care subsidy program after devolution to the local level: A product of the Study of Child Care Devolution in Texas [Executive summary]
Summary of a report analyzing the devolution of subsidized child care policies and program management to local workforce development boards in Texas from 1998 to 20003
Executive Summary
Toward a decade of indifference: Administration ignores child care needs of working families
An analysis of the possible social consequences of the 2007 presidential budget proposal in which funding is frozen for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Who gets what from government?: Distributional consequences of child-care assistance policies
An analysis of the level and distribution of child care assistance using data from the New York Social Indicators Survey to examine how many families receive assistance, how much assistance is received, and how the total assistance levels vary in terms of family, child, and parent characteristics
Reports & Papers
