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Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low-income families? An investigation of different welfare and employment programs with child care assistance policies and their effects on employment rates and child care decisions of low income families |
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Child care quality in different state policy contexts An examination of the influence of differing state regulations and subsidies on child care quality in the for-profit, nonprofit, family, and family, friend, and neighbor child care markets in 14 U.S. cities |
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Competition in the sandbox: A test of the effects of preschool competition on educational outcomes A study using data from the Georgia Pre-K Longitudinal Study to examine the effects of preschool competition on children's academic achievement, retention, and teacher's ratings of school readiness |
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The day care tangle: Unexpected outcomes when programs interact A paper examining the impact of policy changes to federal and state funded child care assistance programs through a study of the Pennsylvania state child care program |
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Differential effects of high-quality child care An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care |
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Do child care regulations affect the child care and labor markets? An analysis of the estimated effects of child care regulations on the labor market for mothers of young children and outcomes in the child care market, including type of care, child care hours, costs, and expenditures per hour and per week |
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An effectiveness-based evaluation of five state pre-kindergarten programs A comparison of the pre-kindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia, including an examination of the math, reading, and vocabulary scores of participating children, and an exploration of the relationship between program quality and outcomes |
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The effect of attending full-day kindergarten on English learner students An examination of the influence of full-day kindergarten on academic achievement, retention, and English language fluency of English language learners, based on data from 159,566 students from 7 cohorts from the 2001-2002 through 2007-2008 school years in the Los Angeles Unified School District |
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The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low-income households 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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Estimating the potential effects of poverty reduction policies A description of the development of a poverty measure in Connecticut based on the National Academy of Science (NAS) recommendations and a simulation of alternative policies to reduce poverty as measured by NAS, based on data from the 2005 and 2006 Current Population Survey, Statistics of Income Data (SOI) from the Internal Revenue Service, and Connecticut administrative data |
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Federal child care assistance: A growing middle-class entitlement A review and critique of child care tax credits and government spending programs, arguing that they benefit families in middle and upper-class income brackets at the expense of the poor |
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Fighting poverty: Attentive policy can make a huge difference A discussion of child poverty trends in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1989-2008 and related poverty policies thought to be responsible for those trends |
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From the Great Society to continuous improvement of government: Shifting from “does it work?” to “what would make it better?” An argument for the improvement of the 1960’s era Great Society programs for young children, including Head Start, by speeding up the program evaluation process, encouraging local experimentation, learning from failure, and employing rigorous research methodologies |
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How welfare reform affects young children: Experimental findings from Connecticut A study of the effects of mothers’ rising employment levels and program participation on young children’s early learning and cognitive growth, comparing participant outcomes in Connecticut’s Jobs First program and a traditional welfare program |
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The impact of kindergarten entrance age policies on the childcare needs of families A presentation of a model for parents' kindergarten entrance age decisions, with an examination of the relationship between socioeconomic factors and parents' desired kindergarten entrance age for their children, based on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) |
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Is full better than half?: Examining the longitudinal effects of full-day kindergarten attendance A study using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort to examine the longitudinal effects of full-day kindergarten attendance, focusing on how low income children were affected |
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A longitudinal study of the effects of family participation in the New Hope intervention on the social, academic, and behavioral development of children eight years after participation A longitudinal study of the effects of family participation in the New Hope employment-based poverty intervention on the social, academic, and behavioral development of several hundred children eight years after participation |
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Nonpoor children in Head Start: Explanations and implications An explanation of the contribution of policy exemptions to the growth of the number of children in Head Start programs from families living above the poverty line |
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The nonprofit advantage: Producing quality in thick and thin child care markets An inquiry into relationship between child care centers’ nonprofit status, market demand, and the quality of services provided, based on a sample of 325 classrooms from 234 for-profit and non-profit child care centers in Canada |
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Packaging support for low-income families: Policy variation across the United States An analysis of variations in state level social policy packages that provide support for low-income families with children |
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[Review of the book The child care problem: An economic analysis and of the book Lone parent, employment and social policy: Cross national comparisons] A review of an economic analysis for understanding parents’ behavior, providers’ behavior, and the links between prices and quantities and qualities of child care |
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[Review of the book The sandbox investment: The preschool movement and kids-first politics] A collection of scientific, economic, and philosophical arguments for the implementation and funding of universal pre-kindergarten in the United States |
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State regulations and the availability of child-care services A study estimating the effects of various state child care regulations on the availability of regulated child care |
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Unintended consequences: Regulating the quality of subsidized day care A paper estimating the effects of regulation on subsidized child care and examining ways of measuring quality in child care centers impacted by new regulations |
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The work-family balance: What hurdles are parents leaving welfare likely to confront? A study of the comparative working conditions faced by parents leaving welfare seeking balance between work and child care and the work conditions faced by parents who never received Aid to Families with Dependent Children provisions through analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth |
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