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			Achieving high-quality child care: How ten programs deliver excellence parents can afford Kinch, Amy, Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children. A study of the characteristics and fundamentals of a high quality and affordable early childhood program by highlighting ten highly-rated child care programs	Reports & Papers
			Building momentum--taking action: Southern states collaborate on child care financial aid and quality initiatives Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A summary of efforts to implement the Southern Regional Task Force on Child Care Action plan to improve access to child care assistance for low income families in the South, based on a survey of Task Force members and summaries of a regional child care forum and state site visits	Reports & Papers
			Child care survey results on funding and related policies in the Southern states Southern Institute on Children and Families, 2004 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. Results from a survey of care funding and state-initiated policy changes related to funding shortages in the southern region of the United States	Reports & Papers
			The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1999 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development.	Reports & Papers
			Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio Howes, Carollee, 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 404-425 An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets	Reports & Papers
			Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity Kontos, Susan, 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 386-403 A study of the role of family variables like ethnicity and income in the choice between family or relative child care arrangements, and the relationship between family variables and child care provider behavior and quality	Reports & Papers
			Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity Burchinal, Margaret, 2000 Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 149-165 A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children�s developmental outcomes	Reports & Papers
			Collaboration among child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten: A telephone survey of selected southern states Campbell, Dottie, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A survey of select southern states collaborative projects between child care, head start and prekindergarten	Reports & Papers
			Collective management of early childhood programs: Approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the industry Stoney, Louise, 2004 Raleigh, NC: Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center. A report presenting a catalog of collective management approaches currently used by child care services across the United 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
			Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report Helburn, Suzanne W., April, 1995 Denver: University of Colorado at Denver, Department of Economics Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina	Reports & Papers
			Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report Helburn, Suzanne W., June, 1995 University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Research in Economic and Social Policy An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results	Reports & Papers
			Court mandates, free markets and the lottery: An exploration of facilities development in states with expanded preschool Amer, Tarecq, Oakland, CA: National Economic Development and Law Center. A study of the approaches of five states to the expansion, renovation, and creation of public preschool facilities, and an identification of common elements relevant to California�s efforts to expand its preschool facilities	Reports & Papers
			Depressive symptoms in young adults: The influences of the early home environment and early educational child care McLaughlin, Andrea E., May/June 2007 Child Development, 78(3), 746-756 An examination of the relationship among depressive symptoms in young adults, quality of early home environment and early educational child care using adults from the age-21 longitudinal follow up of participants in the Abecedarian study	Reports & Papers
			Does training make a difference to quality in family child care? Kontos, Susan, 1996 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(4), 427-445 An article on the characteristics of family child care providers who seek training and the effects of training on child care quality.	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood education: Young adult outcomes from the Abecedarian Project Campbell, Frances A., 2002 Applied Developmental Science, 6(1), 42-57 An article presenting the effects at age 21 of the Abecedarian Project, an early intervention for at-risk children, on cognitive, educational, and social outcomes	Reports & Papers
			Parents as child care consumers Cryer, Debby, 1997 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(1), 35-58 A study of how parental quality ratings of aspects of child care are influenced by parental values, a selection from a larger study, Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers	Reports & Papers
			Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States Smith, Linda K., June, 2003 Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012) A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies	Reports & Papers
			The prediction of process quality from structural features of child care Phillipsen, Leslie C., 1997 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(3), 281-303 An analysis of data from the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study to identify structural features of child care centers and classrooms that predict process quality	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
			Quality in family child care and relative care Kontos, Susan, 1995 New York: Teachers College Press A comprehensive study of family child care and relative care from the perspective of families, children, and providers, including an analysis of child care quality as it relates to child development	Reports & Papers
			Relations between preschool children's child-care experiences and concurrent development: The Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 451-477 A longitudinal study of the effects of child care experiences on concurrent child outcomes, taking into account the quality of child care and the moderating influence of family and child characteristics.	Reports & Papers
			Success stories: State investments in early care and education in Illinois, North Carolina and Rhode Island Mitchell, Anne W., 2005 A report profiling the early care and education programs funded by the state governments of Illinois, North Carolina, and Rhode Island	Reports & Papers

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