Accidents will happen?: Unintentional injury, maternal employment, and child care policy
A paper on the impact of selected child care regulations on the risk of injury for children in formal child care settings using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and the Vital Statistics Detail Mortality (VSDM).
Reports & Papers
Action speaks louder than words: Young children differentially weight perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn verbs
An exploration of the ways that children utilize perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in order to learn verbs, using data from three experiments conducted with 21- to 24-month-old children
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African American fathers: Myths and realities about their involvement with their firstborn children
An examination of the extent and predictors of parental involvment among young, urban, African-American fathers, using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal survey following 1,000 adolescents in 1987-1988 Rochester, New York
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Age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic patterns in early computer use: A national survey
A study of computer use patterns in children 6 months to 6 years of age focusing on the influences of age, gender, ethnicity, income, parental education, and family structure and the relationship between computer screen time and reading skills
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Allocation of time to preschool children and educational opportunity
A study of the relationships among child and parent interaction time, child and family characteristics and child cognitive and social development
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Attachment, temperament, and preschool children's peer acceptance
An analysis of the interplay between preschool children's attachment security, temperament, and peer acceptance using the Waters Attachment Behavior Q-set, mother observations, and Standard Picture-Sociometric Nominations and paired comparisons
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Babies, television and videos: How did we get here?
An overview of selected research on babies' use of television since the 1950s, the increase in screen media for babies, evidence of educational benefits of educational television for preschoolers, and parental beliefs about educational media
Other
A behavior-genetic study of the legacy of early caregiving experiences: Academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten
A behavior-genetic study of associations between early parental support and academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten, based on assessments, at 24 months and approximately age 4, of a sample of 485 same-sex twin pairs from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), born in 2001, and tracked through kindergarten
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Big math for little kids
A description of Big Math for Little Kids, a research-based, comprehensive mathematics program for preschool and kindergarten children, designed to develop and expand on prior mathematics knowledge
Other
Building Blocks for early childhood mathematics
A description of Building Blocks, a research-based mathematics program emphasizing the development of a basic mathematics foundation organized into spatial and geometric concepts and numeric and quantitative concepts
Other
Building blocks of early childhood mathematics
A presentation of the Building Blocks project, which aims to develop a software-enhanced mathematics curriculum that enables young children to build solid content knowledge
Other
Child care and emotional adjustment to wives' employment
A study of employed wives’ psychological wellbeing as affected by the presence of children, the type of child care available, the difficulties surrounding child care arrangements, and the husband’s participation in child care, with data collected through telephone interviews of 680 married couples
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Child-care expenditures and women's employment turnover
An analysis of the child care costs and constraints on women’s employment using the 1985 Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Childcare regulations: A method to pursue social welfare goals
An analysis of the effectiveness of state and local regulations in determining child care staff ratios for 692 child care centers serving preschool children, drawn from a national survey
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Child care subsidies, quality of care, and the labor supply of low-income, single mothers
A survey of the influence of child care subsidies on the labor supply decisions of low-income single mothers in Kentucky
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Child care when parents are employed
A study of the factors that influence employed parents' selection of specific types of child care
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Children, caregiving, culture, and community: Understanding the place and importance of kith and kin care in the White Mountain Apache community
An ethnographic study of the values and circumstances influencing the child care decisions of members of the White Mountain Apache community, with particular attention to both cultural differences in perceptions of quality care and the trends related to the use of family, friend, and neighbor care, based on interviews, observations, and discussions with several dozen parents and care providers
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Children's cortisol and the quality of teacher-child relationships in child care
A study of the correlation between the quality of teacher-child relationships and individual levels of the cortisol stress hormone in a population of 191 preschoolers at 12 child care centers in two Southeastern communities
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Children With autism illuminate the role of social intention in word learning
A comparison of the impact of methods of social interaction on word learning among autistic and non-autistic children between the ages of 2 and 5, based on observational data
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Conceptualizing phonological processing skills in prereaders
A review of research on the link between the acquisition of reading skills in preschool children and activities that require sensitivity to, or manipulation of, the sounds in words
Other
Contexts of reading instruction: Implications for literacy skills and kindergarteners' behavioral engagement
A study the relationships among both kindergarten word-reading and phonological awareness and behavioral engagement, off-task behavior and instructional time in four instructional contexts: teacher or child-managed children's attention, or content or meaning focused instruction, based on data from 170 kindergarteners in 36 classrooms
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Daily Hassles Questionnaire
Instruments
Determinants of responsibility for child care arrangements among dual-earner couples
An analysis of the human capital and social-structural explanations of men’s and women’s responsibility for child arrangements and household labor
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Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: A comparison of language-minority and monolingual-English children
A comparison of the early literacy skills growth profiles over a preschool year of Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) children and non-LM children from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, based on data from 948 children, aged 37 to 60 months, from 30 Head Start classrooms
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Development, assessment, and promotion of preliteracy skills
A review of current research findings on the development of skilled reading in early elementary grades, its developmental precursors, and advances in the early identification of children at risk for reading difficulties
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