Child care and employment: Evidence from random assignment studies of welfare and work programs
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
Reports & Papers
Can teacher training in classroom management make a difference for children's experience in preschool?: A preview of findings from the Foundations of Learning demonstration
Preliminary findings from Newark, New Jersey, sites of an implementation and random-assignment impact evaluation of Foundations of Learning (FOL), a preschool teacher training intervention to support children's behavioral and emotional development, that examined FOL effects on children's behavior and classroom management and instruction
Reports & Papers
Delivering on the promise of preschool: Investing in social and emotional development and early math skills
An overview of efforts to support the socioemotional development and early math skills of preschool-age children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for preschool- and young school-aged children
An examination of the effects of welfare and employment policies on child care outcomes for single parents, and their preschool- to young school-aged children, using data from experimental programs implemented between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s
Reports & Papers
Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for very young children
An analysis of the effects of child care assistance on infant toddler child care use by low-income single-parent families, using data from five experimental evaluation studies of welfare and employment programs
Other
Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care use: Executive summary
A summary of an inquiry into the effects of child care assistance offered through welfare programs on the child care decisions made by parents, based on data gathered from low-income parents participating in 21 employment programs
Executive Summary
The effects of a poverty reduction program on families and children: Lessons from New Hope
Other
The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers
A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida’s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP)
Reports & Papers
The effects of welfare policy on child care decisions: Evidence from ten experimental welfare-to-work programs
A study examining the child care choices made by families on welfare due to changes in welfare policies by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
Reports & Papers
The effects of welfare reform policies on children: Lessons from MFIP (Minnesota Family Investment Program)
An overview of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), which offered financial work incentives for single parents on welfare, with a summary of the program's effects on single mothers and their children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Executive summary: Using classroom management to improve preschoolers' social and emotional skills: Final impact and implementation findings from the Foundations of Learning demonstration in Newark and Chicago
A summary of findings from an evaluation of Foundations of Learning, a preschool teacher training intervention to support children's behavioral and emotional development, that examine program implementation, program impacts on classroom management and instruction and on children's behavior, and program costs and benefits, based on multiple sources of child, teacher, and classroom data collected at 71 randomly-assigned preschools in Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago, Illinois
Executive Summary
Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
A summary of findings from an exploration of factors influencing the use of child care by low-income families
Other
Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies.
Reports & Papers
The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program
Findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Reports & Papers
The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Executive Summary
The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program [Summary report]
A brief report of findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Other
The Foundations of Learning demonstration: Making preschool more productive: How classroom management training can help teachers
Findings from Newark, New Jersey, sites of an implementation and random-assignment impact evaluation of Foundations of Learning (FOL), a preschool teacher training intervention to support children's behavioral and emotional development, that examined FOL effects on classroom management and instruction and children's behavior
Reports & Papers
The Foundations of Learning demonstration: Making preschool more productive: How classroom management training can help teachers: Executive summary
A summary of findings from Newark, New Jersey, sites of an implementation and random-assignment impact evaluation of Foundations of Learning (FOL), a preschool teacher training intervention to support children's behavioral and emotional development, that examined FOL effects on classroom management and instruction and children's behavior
Executive Summary
Growing Up in Poverty Project
A longitudinal study of the effects of mothers moving from welfare-to-work on their economic well-being, home environment, child care quality and use, and their young children's early development
Major Research Projects
How child care assistance in welfare and employment programs can support the employment of low-income families
An analysis of the effects of changes in child care policies on the child care choices of families participating in pilot welfare and employment programs from the late 1980s to the early 1990s
Reports & Papers
Instability in child care: Ethnographic evidence from working poor families in the New Hope intervention
A study of the influence of financial and material resources, social network supports, interpersonal balance in the family, family goals and values, and the stability of the daily routine in changes or stability in child care choices, using data from the New Hope intervention
Reports & Papers
Jobs First: Final report on Connecticut's welfare reform initiative
A study of the welfare form initiative, Job First program, imposing a statewide time limit on receipt of cash assistance and encouraging participation in employment-related services targeted toward quick job placement in Connecticut
Reports & Papers
Jobs First: Final report on Connecticut's welfare reform initiative: Executive summary
A summary of a study of the welfare reform initiative, Job First program, imposing a statewide time limit on receipt of cash assistance and encouraging participation in employment-related services targeted toward quick job placement in Connecticut
Executive Summary
Jobs First: Final report on Connecticut's welfare reform initiative: Summary report
A study of the welfare reform initiative, Job First program, imposing a statewide time limit on receipt of cash assistance and encouraging participation in employment-related services targeted toward quick job placement in Connecticut
Other
Making child care choices: How welfare and work policies influence parents' decisions
A policy brief reviewing nine random assignment evaluations of the child care decisions made by approximately 20,000 low income parents
Fact Sheets & Briefs
