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			Child care in Massachusetts: Where the supply is and isn't Queralt, Magaly, 1997 (Special Report No. CRW17). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women	Reports & Papers
			Child care needs, arrangements, and satisfaction of mothers of children with developmental disabilities Warfield, Marji E., 1996 Mental Retardation, 34(5), 294-302 A review of the constraints and types of child care arrangements used by mothers of five-year-old children with development disabilities	Reports & Papers
			Child-care selection from birth to age three: The influence of family economy, demographics, and parenting attitudes Wolf, Anne, 2004 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Two studies using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development examined family variations in timing and type of children's initial child care arrangements and then variations in amount of hours spent in child care per week from birth to age three	Reports & Papers
			Child care structure, process, outcome: Direct and indirect effects of child care quality on young children's development [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 364-375). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study exploring whether process measures of child care quality mediate the relationship between structural features of child care quality and child outcomes, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund A study of the Head Start program�s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group	Reports & Papers
			Child-care usage and mother-infant ''quality time'' Booth-LaForce, Cathryn L., 2002 Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64(1), 16-26 A study of mother�s time use and mother-infant interaction in families where infants spent more than 30 hours pet week in child care vs. 0 hours per week from birth to age 6 months	Reports & Papers
			Childhood social environment and Hodgkin's lymphoma: New findings from a population-based case-control study Chang, Ellen T., 2004 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 13(8), 1361-1370 A study examining the potential relationship between childhood social environments and incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma	Reports & Papers
			Child outcomes when child care center classes meet recommended standards for quality NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1999 American Journal of Public Health, 89(7), 1072-1077 A study of how children's cognition, language and social competence are affected by child care meeting professional quality standards, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Child outcomes when child care center classes meet recommended standards for quality [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 358-363). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study of how children's cognition, language and social competence are affected by child care meeting professional quality standards, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Children's friendships and after-school program participation: Does participation in an after-school program affect the development and quality of children's friendships? Mitchell, Sarah G., 2005 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst An examination of the impact of after-school programs on the quality and development of elementary children's friendships, specifically looking at the effects of group size, program location (urban or rural), and program quality	Reports & Papers
			Chronicity of maternal depressive symptoms, maternal sensitivity, and child functioning at 36 months [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 151-162). New York: Guilford Press A study of the link between maternal depression and mother-child interaction as it relates to children�s functioning at 36 months, based on data from 89 percent of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care sample	Reports & Papers
			Citizen schools? contribution to improved learning in expanded learning time schools: Research brief Woods, Yvonne M., April, 2009 Boston, MA: Citizen Schools in Massachusetts. (No longer accessible as of October 10, 2012). A comparison of the implementation of the Massachusetts Expanding Learning Time to Support Student Success (ELT) Initiative in 2 public middle schools in Boston and 1 middle school in Malden, Massachusetts, and an examination of changes in students? academic performance in math and English language arts (ELA)	Reports & Papers
			Citizen Schools: Evidence from two student cohorts on the use of community resources to promote youth development: Phase II report of the Citizen Schools evaluation Citizen Schools, 30 August, 2004 Washington, DC: Policy Studies Associates. Findings from the second phase of an evaluation of the impact of Citizen Schools program participation on the improvement of the academic outcomes and life trajectories of at risk middle-school students in Massachusetts, with a focus on student participants' selection of college preparatory high school and on schedule advancement into tenth grade	Reports & Papers
			Comparing universal and targeted prekindergarten programs Dotterer, Aryn M., 2009 In R.C. Pianta & C. Howes (Eds.), The promise of pre-k (pp. 65-76). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes A comparison of classroom characteristics and preschooler achievement outcomes in universal and targeted pre-k programs based on a sample of over 400 children in over 800 classrooms	Reports & Papers
			Designing better preschools: Improving communication between designers and child development professionals Beacham, Cindy V., 2006 Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 98(3), 39-43 A focus group-based analysis of methods to help improve communication between designers and child development professionals in order to improve the process of designing child care centers	Reports & Papers
			Does amount of time spent in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during the transition to kindergarten? [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 297-317). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study of how children's socioemotional development is affected by the cumulative amount of time spent in nonmaternal care from birth to the preschool years, and the quality, type and other characteristics of child care, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Does class size in first grade relate to children's academic and social performance or observed classroom processes? NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, September 2004 Developmental Psychology, 40(5), 651-664 An assessment of the amount that first grade class size predicted child outcomes and observed classroom processes using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Does quality of child care affect child outcomes at age 4 1/2? [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 337-357). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study exploring the causal nature of relations between child care quality and children's development, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Duration of subsidized child care arrangements in five areas of Massachusetts: A briefing report [Draft] Witte, Ann D., July 2001 Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics A study of the characteristics of the children and families receiving child care vouchers in Massachusetts, including the type of child care purchased with child care vouchers and the duration of continuous enrollment in the Commonwealth�s voucher program	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and children's development prior to school entry [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 376-391). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study of the impact of early child care experiences, and the quality and types of child care, on children's functioning prior to school entry, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 281-296). New York: Guilford Press An abridged reprint of a study of how time spent in child care, child care quality, and availability of peers relate to children's peer social competence at 23 and 36 months, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003 Infant Behavior & Development, 26(3), 345-370 A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 246-258). New York: Guilford Press A study of early child care, with respect to child care quality, stability, and amount, in the first 3 years of life as predictors of qualities of mother-child interaction across children�s transition to school	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and self-control, compliance, and problem behavior at 24 and 36 months [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 263-280). New York: Guilford Press A comparison of early child care experiences and family factors, such as income-to-need ratio and mother�s psychological adjustment, as predictors of 2- and 3-year-olds� self-control, compliance, and problem behavior outcomes	Reports & Papers
			Early child care and self-control, compliance, and problem behavior at twenty-four and thirty-six months NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1998 Child Development, 69(4), 1145-1170 A study into factors of family and child care experiences as predictors of self-control, compliance and problem behavior in children	Reports & Papers

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