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Child care quality and workforce characteristics in four Midwestern states
Raikes, Helen, 2003
Omaha, NE: Gallup Organization.

A study of observed child care quality and its relation to hypothesized and potential indicators of quality, using a representative randomly selected sample of the provider population in four Midwestern states

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Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality
Torquati, Julia C., Q4 2011
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26(4), 453-464

A study of the relationship between differences in observed program quality and parent perceived program quality among parents with various family income, parents' education, parents' perceived constraints in selecting child care, and type of selected child care, based on data from 1,313 parents by children in poor, low-income, and non-low-income families in 4 Midwestern state

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Leading the way: Characteristics and early experiences of selected Early Head Start programs: Volume I: Cross-site perspectives
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, December 1999
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

A description of the characteristics and early implementation experiences of the 17 research programs participating in the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in fall 1997, with a focus on similarities and differences across programs in the characteristics of the families they serve, their goals and expected outcomes, the services they offer, and their early challenges and successes

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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
Raikes, Helen, July/August 2006
Child Development, 77(4), 924-953

An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project

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Parent experiences with state child care subsidy systems and their perceptions of choice and quality in care selected
Raikes, Helen, July, 2012
Early Education and Development, 23(4), 558-582

A study of parents' experiences using Child Care and Development Fund and other state-dispersed child care subsidies, reasons for choosing their current child care program, and perceptions of the quality of child care received from their current program, based on a survey of 659 parents receiving child care subsidies in 4 states

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Parent perceptions of child care choice and quality in four states
Raikes, Helen, 2005
Lincoln: University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Center on Children, Families, and the Law.

A study of parents’ child care perceptions, decision-making factors, and processes in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska

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Pathways to quality and full implementation in Early Head Start programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families, 2002
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A report characterizing the development of Early Head Start programs over the first four years of the program's existence.

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Regulation, subsidy receipt and provider characteristics: What predicts quality in child care homes?
Raikes, H. Abigail, 2005
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 20(2), 164-184

A study of the influence of family child care regulations, the concentration of children cared for who received public child care subsidies (i.e., subsidy density), providers' level of education, and reported annual training hours on global quality and caregiver sensitivity in four Midwestern states

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Studying the culture of quality early education and care: A cumulative approach to measuring characteristics of the workforce and relations to quality in four Midwestern states
Raikes, Helen, 2006
In M. Zaslow & I. Martinez-Beck (Eds.), Critical issues in early childhood professional development (pp. 111-136). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

A study of the relation between child care provider characteristics, summed up in an Asset Index for Child Care Providers, and child care quality in four Midwestern states

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