2002 Oregon child care market rate study
Oregon. Department of Human Services, 2003
Salem, OR: Oregon, Department of Human Services.
A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Oregon in 2002
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2004 Oregon child care market rate study
Oregon. Department of Human Services, 2004
Salem, OR: Oregon, Department of Human Services.
A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Oregon in 2004
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2009 market rate study: Final report
University of Kentucky. Kentucky Partnership for Early Childhood Services, 2009
Lexington: University of Kentucky, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute.
A study of market rates for licensed and certified child care in Kentucky by provider type, age of child, full-time or part-time care, geographic region, subsidy program participation, quality rating, and use of assessment or screening tool, based on a survey of providers
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Airlines, flight attendants, and dependent care
Desrosiers, Alyce, January, 1997
Portland, OR: Portland State University.
An investigation into the relationship between child care arrangements of flight attendants and their absenteeism, based on a survey of 113 flight attendants with dependent care responsibilities based out of Oregon
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Alternative models for an early care and education system
Edie, David, 2004
A report analyzing early care and education (ECE) developments and policies and presenting models for a potential Wisconsin ECE system
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Alternative policy options for child care subsidy programs
Edie, David, 2003
(Public Policy Options for Early Care and Education Report No. 1). Madison: University of Wisconsin--Extension.
A description of Wisconsin's child care subsidy policies and an outline of the potential consequences of four options for funding-related policy change
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Analysis of ongoing participation in a child care workforce cash incentive programme in the United States
Gable, Sara, July 2010
Early Child Development and Care, 180(6), 719-734
A study of factors associated with the continued participation of child care center staff in the Workforce Initiative (WIN) paid professional development program, based on data collected through the initial surveys and semiannual telephone interviews of 400 staff from 99 child care centers over the course of 3 years
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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2002
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)
A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)
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Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used?
Witte, Ann D., 2005
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics.
A study analyzing administrative data from Miami-Dade County, Florida to determine the impact of welfare reform on child care quality
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Asymmetric information and the child care market
Lim, Youngok, 2006
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
A study using data from the Child Care Programs of Excellence (CCPOE) project to examine which types of providers are more likely to participate in a voluntary quality rating system, and the significance of quality in parents' decisions about child care arrangements
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Balancing work and family in the first four and a half years of life
Bozzi, Laurie, 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
A set of two longitudinal analyses of data from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (NICHD SECC). The first analysis investigates the effects of maternal employment, work/family attitudes, and childcare on mothers’ responsiveness to their children in the first four years of their children’s lives; the second analysis examines changes in mothers’ perceptions of the relative rewards and strains of being employed during their children’s first three years of life.
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Beyond looking backward: Is child care a key economic sector?
Pratt, James Edward, Summer 2006
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 37(2), 23-37
An economic analysis of the child care system in New York State, using a hypothetical extraction approach
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Championing our children: Looking at changes in quality price and availability of child care in the welfare reform age
Queralt, Magaly, 2000
(Wellesley College Working Paper 2000-07). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics.
An examination of the availability, quality, and price of services offered by licensed child care and early childhood education providers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, during a 38-month period surrounding the passage and implementation of welfare reform
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Change and stability among publicly subsidized license-exempt child care providers
Whitebook, Marcy, 2003
University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.
A study assessing the characteristics of subsidized license-exempt child care providers within Alameda County, California
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Changes in the availability, quality and price of child care in Massachusetts between 1997 and 1999
Witt, Robert, 2000
(Wellesley College Working Paper 2000-12). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics
A report comparing the characteristics of subsidized and non-subsidized child care providers in Massachusetts from 1997 to 1999
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Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform
Queralt, Magaly, 2000
Social Service Review, 74(4), 588-619
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.
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The characteristics and training needs of school-age care programs in the larger metro Atlanta area
Todd, Christine M., 2002
Decatur, GA: Georgia School-Age Care Association
A study of intensive school age child care programs in the Atlanta area, using director surveys to determine supply, demographics, characteristics and problems, staff training needs, and differences between not-for-profit and for-profit programs
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Child care aid and quality for California families: Focusing on San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties
Fuller, Bruce, 2001
(Working Paper Series 01-2). Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.
A report on subsidy use and quality of child care selected by single mother welfare recipients in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties, California
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Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report
Ward, Helen D., December, 2006
Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, Institute for Child and Family Policy.
A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families
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Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Parents' voices
Ward, Helen D., 2004
Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.
A qualitative examination of the experiences of a sample of Maine parents and guardians of children with special needs in accessing child care and early intervention services
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Child Care and Development Block Grant: Report of state plans for the period 10/01/97 to 9/30/99
United States. Child Care Bureau, 1998
Vienna, VA: National Child Care Information Center.
An overview of the strategies that each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico developed to use limited resources to address the needs of working families for affordable, accessible, and quality child care
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Child care and education in Oregon and its counties: 1998
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), 2000
Albany, OR: Linn-Benton Community College, Family Resources and Education Division.
A report on the availability and cost of child care in Oregon and each of its counties.
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Child care and education in Oregon and its counties: 2000
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), 2003
Corvallis: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership.
A statewide survey on Oregon's child care system that profiles each county in regards to the availability, affordability, and quality of the county's child care system
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Child care and employment: Evidence from random assignment studies of welfare and work programs
Gennetian, Lisa A., 2003
(Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 17). New York: MDRC.
An investigation into the effects of welfare reform policies and links between employment and child care choices, using data from random assignment pilot welfare programs begun between 1993 and 1996 in a variety of urban and rural areas in the United States
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Child care and the welfare to work transition
Lemke, Robert, 2000
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 7583). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
A report on child care-related factors affecting welfare recipients' decisions to work or participate in training under Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) regulations
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