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Peer Reviewed JournalCurrent Filters: Resource Type:Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects [remove]; Pub Year:2001 [remove];
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America Cares for Children and Youth: School-Age Care Needs Assessment and Training Project A project documenting the demand and supply of formal and informal school-age care, particularly for ethnic minority or low-income youth, in inner city and remote rural areas of Georgia. The project also develops and evaluates community needs assessment tools and training protocols for informal caregivers. |
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Child Care and Special Needs Children: Challenges for Low-income Families A study of child care for children with special needs that also examines related issues of welfare reform and coordination with early intervention services at the community level. The research is based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with low income parents of children with special needs in six communities in Maine and Connecticut, as well as interviews with welfare caseworkers, early intervention case managers, child care providers, and low-wage employees, to provide a context for parents' perspectives. Surveys of 189 child care providers and 441 parents of children with special needs in Maine was conducted as well as a secondary analysis of data from a sample of families with children with special needs drawn from the National Survey of America's Families. |
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Child Care Price Dynamics in California A California child care market study with the following objectives: (1) tracing trends in price; (2) relating price changes to characteristics of supply and demand in county and sub-county markets; (3) understanding how providers set prices; and (4) assessing the effect of vouchers, reimbursement rate ceilings, or other policies on the overall price of care in the private market. Sub-study 1 is a trend analysis of provider prices from Regional Market Rate Surveys over the past decade. Sub-study 2 is a longitudinal study of 25 providers in urban San Mateo County and rural Kern County. |
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Child-Care Selection from Birth to Age Three: The Influence of Family Economy, Demographics, and Parenting Beliefs A study of the influence of family socioeconomic status, parental beliefs, and differences between single and two parent families on child care selection. The study identifies the timing and sequence of care over children's first three years of life, and examines the following issues: (1) whether and when children enter care of different types (e.g., relative care vs. family day care) and intensity (e.g., part- versus full-time); (2) the sequence of arrangements over the first three years; (3) how time-variant (e.g., income, parenting beliefs) and time-invariant (e.g., ethnicity) family characteristics affect child care decisions; and (4) whether these effects vary by child age. |
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Child Care Use in Mexican American Families An examination of factors that may influence child care practices of Mexican American families, including: community and employment factors; cultural beliefs and caregiving practices; extended family and non-kin networks; family characteristics; and child care characteristics. The study uses an integrative process-oriented model of minority children's development, and follows two cohorts of Mexican American families: a group with one-month old infants (N=80), and a group with 24-month old toddlers (N=80), for three years. This cross-sectional cohort design focuses on three issues: (1) factors associated with parental child care choices; (2) assessment of the features and quality of child care; and (3) factors associated with the effect of child care on family and child outcomes. |
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Community Variations in Child Care for Working Poor Families: Contributions to Child Development and Parental Employment Opportunities A description and comparison of the "child care landscapes" in four communities with diverse subsidy policies, employing an integrated design and using existing data, qualitative data, and quantitative data to identify the community-level variables that are most strongly associated with quality of care and child and family outcomes, and to determine the linkages between child care characteristics and parental work outcomes. The first phase includes 500 parent surveys, 30 community informant interviews, 15 parent focus groups and an analysis of existing community data. The second phase includes assessments of 300 children (30 infants/toddlers and 30 preschoolers in each of 5 communities), their parents, and their child care providers, using measures of child care structural quality, process quality, child development, and parent employment. |
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Connecticut Early Childhood Research and Development Project: Child Care Data CONNections A project undertaken by the Connecticut Department of Social Services, and the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, to build a statewide research infrastructure for well-informed, effective and efficient program and policy development at state and local levels, with the advice and guidance of six stakeholder panels (research, data, advocacy, technology, funders, and data users). Activities include building an inventory of databases, prioritizing recommendations for aligning existing databases and related information dissemination processes, and developing a three- to five-year research agenda. |
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Devolution of Subsidized Child Care in Texas A study of the relationship between child care subsidy management policies and the supply, usage, and quality of subsidized care for low-income families in 28 local workforce regions. The study employs a detailed statistical analysis plan to guide increasingly sophisticated analyses throughout the project, and uses administrative data from several state agencies, in combination with other public data, to develop a summary profile for each region, including key policies, demographics, economic characteristics, and child care measures. |
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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies A multi-site, multi-year study to gather research evidence that will inform policy decision-making in states and communities and effective allocation of child care subsidy funds. In particular, the study looks at how different child care subsidy policies and procedures and quality improvement efforts help low-income parents obtain and hold onto jobs and improve outcomes for children. Study staff worked with states and communities across the country to identify significant issues and develop hypotheses about the use of child care subsidy funds that could be rigorously tested in a series of experiments. A guiding principle of the study was that state or community interests and preferences would play a large role in the choice of research topics and strategies. Study sites and focus of evaluation include: (1) effectiveness of three language and literacy curricula on teaching practices and children's language and literacy outcomes (Miami, Dade County, Florida); (2) effectiveness of training on Learning Games curriculum in changing care-giving practices in family child care homes and children's developmental outcomes (Massachusetts); (3) impact of alternative eligibility and re-determination child care subsidy policies on parental employment outcomes, choice and stability of care, and other family outcomes (Illinois); and (4) impact of alternative child care co-payment structures on use of child care subsidies and employment outcomes (Washington State). |
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Exit and Voice: Labor Turnover in Child Care Centers An inquiry into the relationship between working conditions and teacher turnover in child care programs. Using a new survey and data set designed by the researcher of programs in Massachusetts, factors are examined that might be related to lower turnover. The study employs economist Albert Hirschman's theory of exit, voice and loyalty--an economic theory that predicts lower turnover at programs where workers feel they have a say, or a voice, in the operation and organization of their work lives--to see if "voice" alternatives to quitting are an effective method of reducing exits. In different institutional settings, including unionization and regional unemployment, "voice" alternatives studied include: working relationships and practices between management and labor; identified paths for promotion and compensation; and processes for making decisions and addressing grievances. |
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Family Income, Infant Child Care, and Child Development An exploration of links among poverty, quality and cost of child care, family outcomes, other key family characteristics, and infant development at 12 and 24 months, using a random sample of 200 infants (100 girls, 100 boys) and their families from 100 centers that care for infants. This project is a collaboration among the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, the Wellesley College Psychology Department, and Abt Associates, and is part of a larger research program addressing important issues of quality and cost in early care and education. |
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Impacts of Child Care Policy and Welfare Reform on Child Care Markets and Low-income Parents and Children A study of child care needs in local areas, particularly low-income communities and those with large numbers of ethnic minority families, using 1994-2003 longitudinal data for Florida, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Three key questions addressed are: (1) What does child care look like today?; (2) How do variations in child care and child care policy affect children?; and (3) How do variations affect parents? The study examines variation in availability, quality, and price of care for different age groups. |
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Influence of Welfare Reform and Child Care Problems on the Detailed Employment Experiences of Low-income Mothers A project concentrating on the hypothesis that child care is responsible, in part, for disrupting the employment and economic self-reliance of low-skilled mothers. The study is based on the Philadelphia Survey of Child Care and Work--a one hour, quantitative, door-to-door survey of 707 Black, White and Hispanic mothers of children under age 13. Key questions include: (1) How do child care characteristics and constraints affect success at work?; (2) What are the effects of policies associated with welfare, work, and child care?; (3) How are work outcomes different for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) mothers compared with a control group of working mothers?; and (4) How are the answers to these questions different for mothers from different racial/ethnic groups, neighborhoods, family characteristics, and social resources? |
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Informal Social Support Roles of African American Child Care Providers in Low Income Communities An examination of the ways African-American child care providers support low-income African-American parents and neighborhoods beyond the daily responsibilities of child care, and the relationships that develop among African-American child care providers, parents, and communities. The study explores the extent to which providers offer parents emotional and financial support in addition to child care, as well as how providers expand their caring to local neighborhoods through informal monitoring and organizing. |
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A Longitudinal Study of Legal, Unregulated Family Child Care Providers Who Participate in the Child Care Subsidy Program A study following legal, unregulated family child care providers for three years, focusing only on providers who participate in the subsidy system, and assessing the quality of care, the continuity of care, and the effects of participating in quality improvement activities on quality of care over time. Providers are interviewed every three months in order to provide accurate information on variables such as continuity of service provision and continuity of care for children. |
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Massachusetts Research, Analysis, and Evaluation Project A project to establish a state-of-the-art early care and education data warehouse and build a Research Analysis and Evaluation Unit within the Office of Child Care Services (OCCS). The warehouse integrates data sets from many sources, including state administrative databases, census data, and state initiated research efforts. Along with the development of in-house expertise in research and analysis, the warehouse supports the evaluation of state quality program initiatives, such as tiered rate increases, and assessments of the longitudinal impact of program quality on school readiness. |
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Oregon Child Care Research and State Capacity Project A collaborative project for the creation of the Oregon Data Analysis Unit, operating within the Child Care Division. Functions of the unit include: (1) developing a comprehensive, systemic performance measurement process for the Oregon child care system; (2) redesigning the child care licensing system; and (3) producing guidebooks of basic methodologies to support ongoing research and data efforts in Oregon and across the nation. The unit is also involved in two major research efforts. The first continues the Five-State Study of Child Care Subsidy Durations, addressing questions about the relationship among use of child care subsidies, employment, and stability of child care. The second uses data on child care supply and usage to capture the dynamics of the child care supply. |
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Partnering for Quality: The Impact of Partnerships on Child Care Quality and Accessibility An examination of the approaches to child care partnerships in existence across the country, and the impact of child care/Head Start partnerships on quality and access. Phase 1 analyzes an existing database of quantitative and qualitative data to describe current approaches. Phase 2 involves a correlational study of data from a random sample of child care centers and a comparison group not engaged in partnerships, using surveys of parents, teachers, and directors of child care and Head Start programs over three points in time. |
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The Relationship Between Early Childhood Caregivers' Beliefs About Child-Rearing and Young Children's Development: A Secondary Analysis of Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human development Study of Early Child Care An examination of the child-rearing beliefs and authoritarian/non-authoritarian values of caregivers (center-based, family child care providers, grandparents, other relatives, and babysitters/nannies) in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (NICHD, 1994). The study furthers an understanding of non-parental caregivers' roles in young children's development. Findings may have social policy implications related to developing effective education and training programs for caregivers. |
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A Study of Informal Child Care A multi-method, descriptive study of informal care, analyzing data (including State subsidy data) to assess utilization of subsidized informal care statewide. Data are gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in three diverse Illinois communities to gain the perspectives of parents, providers, and staff of Child Care Resource and Referral agencies, including comprehensive interviews with 300 parents and 300 informal providers. The study develops strategies for providing services and supports to informal caregivers. |
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