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
Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers
An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families
Reports & Papers
Child care choices for working families: Examining child care choices of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 members working in San Francisco's hospitality industry
A study examining the links between parental employment schedules, care decisions, cost of child care and demographics amongst members in Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 2 of San Francisco and their children
Reports & Papers
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
Welfare policies matter for children and youth: Lessons from TANF reauthorization
A brief on the effects welfare reforms targeted at parents have on the academic achievement of their elementary-school-age and adolescent children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
A controlled random assignment longitudinal study of the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs collecting data on child care and child well-being.
Data Sets
The dynamics of child care subsidy use: A collaborative study of five states [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from a multi-state study of child care subsidy dynamics from July 1997 to June 1999 in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas
Executive Summary
We can’t get there without them: Addressing the barriers to parent participation in building America’s child care system
An inquiry into the role of parents in the sustainable development of child care programs, including a discussion of barriers to parental involvement and examples of solutions employed by various early childhood programs nationwide
Fact Sheets & Briefs
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
Reforming welfare and rewarding work: Final report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program: Vol. II. Effects on children
A report on the impacts on children of the Minnesota Family Investment Program, an alternative welfare-to-work program for Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients
Reports & Papers
The federal agenda
A speech given by the Commissioner for the Administration of Children, Youth and Families on the quality of child care supporting families and enhancing child development and the administrations role and priorities in child care
Other
States are already cutting child care and TANF-funded programs
A discussion of states who have proposed or implemented spending reductions to child care programs that use the Temporary Assitance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Employment and child-care choices of single-parent families in Canada and the United States
Estimates of the effects of child care subsidies, child care prices, income taxes, welfare payments, and wage rates on the employment
and child care choices of single parents, using Canadian and United States data
Reports & Papers
Child care, women's employment, and child outcomes
A review of the literature on the impact of child care and maternal employment in the preschool years on child outcomes, addressing potential benefits of early intervention on child care programs and effects of maternal employment and child care in the first years of life
Literature Review
Estimating effects of day care use on children's school readiness: Evidence from the New Chance demonstration
An analysis of the school readiness of children whose parents voluntarily participated in New Chance, a program targeted at teen parents, based on a sample of 1,774 young mothers and their children
Reports & Papers
Understanding family, friend, and neighbor care in Washington state: Developing appropriate training and support
A study of the demand and supply of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care in Washington State, with a discussion of state attention and involvement in FFN arrangements
Reports & Papers
Impacts of child care subsidies on family and child well-being
An examination of the effects of child care subsidy receipt on low income mothers, comparing families receiving subsidies with families on waiting lists; factors examined included employment, income, percent of income spent on child care, and satisfaction with child care arrangements
Reports & Papers
Child care effects on the development of toddlers with special needs
A study comparing the development of toddlers with special needs in nonmaternal child care with those cared for at home by mothers
Reports & Papers
Examining the cost of military child care
A study of the costs associated with providing care to children in Department of Defense (DoD)-operated Child Development Centers
(CDCs), Family Child Care (FCC) homes, and centers operated by
outside providers under contract
Reports & Papers
Welfare to work and child care selection: Which families use subsidies and home-based or center care?
A study of child care subsidy use and use of home-based or center-based child care for 1,974 parents in California
Reports & Papers
New England early care and education workforce policies, programs and strategies
A compendium of early childhood education and care policies and initiatives in New England, with recommendations for future studies to help further early childhood policy initiatives
Other
Child care: Funding and spending under federal block grants
An analysis of the recent changes, current expenditures, and additional need for federal child care funding for low income families
Other
The home-daycare link: Mapping children's new world order
A review of the literature on the interaction between home and child care environments, focusing on the reciprocal influence between children's experiences in each environment, the continuity across environments, children's adaptation to each context, and the relation between parents and caregivers.
Other
Family child care finances and their effect on quality and incentives
A study of expenditures and revenues for paid family child care providers, and monetary incentives to enter the field, using financial data from telephone interviews with a subset of regulated and unregulated providers from the Family Child Care and Relative Care (FCCRC) data set
Reports & Papers
Data for community planning: 2000 Oregon population estimates & survey findings
A study of the costs and demand for child care in Oregon
Reports & Papers
