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			Nonstandard work schedules and child care decisions: Evidence from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care Han, Wen-Jui, 2004 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(2), 231-256 A study of the relationship between parents' work schedules and child care arrangements, using longitudinal data collected by the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network	Reports & Papers
			Type of child care and children's development at 54 months NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2004 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(2), 203-230 An investigation of the factors that contribute to parents' child care decision-making, and the effects of child care settings on child outcomes, funded by the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network	Reports & Papers
			Understanding the social and spatial neighborhood context for working mothers: An examination of child care services and outcomes Laughlin, Lynda L., August, 2006 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Temple University, Philadelphia A study of the role of neighborhood and local child care market characteristics in mothers' child care decision-making, based on data from the Philadelphia Survey of Child Care and Work, a stratified, random cluster sample of 1,070 mothers, as well as on data from the 2000 Census and on administrative data on licensed child care providers in Philadelphia	Reports & Papers
			Child care: State efforts to enforce safety and health requirements United States. Government Accountability Office, 2004 (GAO-04-786). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office. A report by the Government Accountability Office to House Representative Sander M Levin regarding the regulation of child care health and safety requirements in states supported by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)	Reports & Papers
			Reasons for choosing child care: Associations with family factors, quality, and satisfaction Peyton, Vicki, 2001 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 16(4), 191-208 An investigation into the reasons mothers select particular care arrangements for their 3 year olds based on 633 mothers who were part of a larger longitudinal study	Reports & Papers
			Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families Mitchell, Anne W., 1992 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families	Reports & Papers
			African American, White and Hispanic child care preferences: A factorial survey analysis of welfare leavers by race and ethnicity Shlay, Anne B., January 2010 Social Science Research, 39(1), 125-141 An examination of race and ethnicity differences in child care preferences and definitions of child care quality from a survey of 97 low income adults whose TANF benefits have been terminated in Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			Racial and ethnic differences in welfare leavers' child care preferences: A factorial survey analysis Shlay, Anne B., April 2007 Philadelphia: Temple University, Family and Children's Policy Collaborative. A study of differences by race and ethnicity in welfare leavers' preference for various characteristics of child care settings, including the role of Pennsylvania's Quality Rating System in informing parents' child care choices	Reports & Papers
			Teasing apart the child care conundrum: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair market price and willingness to pay by low-income, African American parents Shlay, Anne B., 2005 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 20(4), 393-416 An examination of methods used by low income families to evaluate child care quality, based on a sample of 143 low income African American mothers from the Philadelphia metropolitan area	Reports & Papers
			How parents evaluate child care: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair market price and willingness to pay by low-income, African American mothers Shlay, Anne B., 2004 Philadelphia: Temple University, Department of Psychology. An examination of methods used by low income families to evaluate child care quality, based on a sample of 143 low income African American mothers from the Philadelphia metropolitan area	Reports & Papers
			How low-income African American mothers evaluate child care arrangements: A factorial survey analysis of parent preferences, fair market value, and willingness to pay Tran, Henry, May 2004 Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy. An examination of methods used by low-income families to evaluate child care quality, based on a sample of 141 low-income, African-American mothers from the Philadelphia metropolitan area	Reports & Papers
			Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003 United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families. A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)	Reports & Papers
			Child-care effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2006 American Psychologist, 61(2), 99-116 A report of findings on the effect sizes for exclusive maternal care and, for children in child care, for type, quality, and quantity of care, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development	Reports & Papers
			The relationship of maternal work characteristics to childcare type and quality in rural communities De Marco, Allison, November 2009 Community, Work & Family, 12(4), 369-387 An examination of the relationship between selection of child care type by parents and both quality of care and maternal workplace characteristics from a secondary analysis of selected Family Life Project longitudinal study data collected in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, from 441 employed mothers in rural communities	Reports & Papers
			Maternal nonstandard work schedules and child cognitive outcomes Han, Wen-Jui, 2005 Child Development, 76(1), 137-154 A study to determine whether maternal work schedules have an effect on children's cognitive outcomes, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (NICHD SECC)	Reports & Papers
			Child care problems and work outcomes for low-skilled mothers Press, Julie E., 2003 Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy. http://unix.temple.edu/%7ejpress/Ford%20Final%20Report.pdf (no longer accessible since December 5, 2005) A study of the child care problems and choices of urban, poor, and working mothers, and a study of the relationship between work-related outcomes and child care problems, broken down by a variety of household demographic measures and based on data collected from 1,072 mothers from a sample of low income Philadelphia neighborhoods	Reports & Papers
			The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start programs are reaching out to kith and kin caregivers: Final interim report Paulsell, Diane, 2006 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A preliminary descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, analyzing participant characteristics and program design as they affect the extension of home visitation services to relatives and non-relatives caring for infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs	Reports & Papers
			Making a case for child care: An evaluation of a Pennsylvania-based intervention called Child Care Matters Shlay, Anne B., 2002 Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for Public Policy. An evaluation of the overall implementation, effectiveness at changing child care policy, influence on the media, effect on business practices, and impact of child care investments of Child Care Matters, a Pennsylvania initiative to shift the focus of the child care agenda to improving accessibility, affordability, and quality	Reports & Papers
			The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011 (OPRE Report 2011-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee	Reports & Papers
			Strategies for supporting quality in kith and kin child care: Findings from the Early Head Start Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot evaluation United States. Head Start Bureau, 28 July, 2006 Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. A descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, an initiative supporting the quality of kith and kin child care provision for infants and toddlers in Early Head Start, based on site visits, staff telephone interviews, quality observations, caregiver interviews, and administrative records	Reports & Papers

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