Child care policy and the experiences of employed Albertan families with pre-school children: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the child care decision-making and perspectives of working parents in Alberta, Canada, based on seven focus groups with 42 participants
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Working later in Illinois: Works schedules, incomes and parents’ access to child care [Executive summary]
A summary of an exploration of the relationship between parents’ nonstandard work hours and their access to child care, and an inquiry into the influence of work hours and child care access on child care decisions
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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
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: State and Community Substudy: Interim report: Executive summary
An executive summary of a study of state and community child care policies and programs, examining how these policies and programs meet the needs of low-income families, how they change over time, how they impact the local child care supply, and how low-income families make child care decisions.
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Patterns of child care use among low-income families: Final report: Executive summary
A summary of a study of families' decisions regarding employment and child care arrangements, examining variations by child's age, mother's race, and other family characteristics, and assessing the impact of child care subsidies and other state policies on families' choices
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Preliminary findings from interviews with child care program managers: A product of the Study of Devolution of Subsidized Child Care in Texas [Executive Summary]
Summary of a report on the effects of the devolution of child care subsidy programs on local child care subsidy administration in Texas
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The economic impact of Oklahoma's child care industry [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of child care market rates across the State of Oklahoma in 2003, including information on child care and statewide employment, earned income and state economic effects
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Oregon Subsidy Policy Impact Research Project: Parent survey: Executive summary
A summary of a study of Oregon parents' employment, child care subsidy experiences, and child care selection, arrangements, and costs, based on a survey of 580 parents who received a child care subsidy in December 2009
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YoungStar at one year: An analysis of child care quality in Milwaukee County [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the implementation of YoungStar, the Wisconsin state child care quality rating and improvement system, in Milwaukee County, and a discussion of the implications for the county child care market, based on an analysis of initial data collected for Milwaukee County providers during the program's first year
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Estimating net child care price elasticities of partnered women with pre-school children using a discrete structural labour supply-child care model [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the relationship of changes in families' child care expenses to changes in maternal labor supply in Australia, based on an analysis of data from the 2005 through 2007 waves of an annual panel survey of approximately 7,000 households
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Paths to QUALITY: A child care quality rating system for Indiana: What is its scientific basis? [Executive summary]
A summary of an analysis of the validity of the quality standards used in Paths to QUALITY, Indiana's child care quality rating system, based on results from pilot sites and a review of research literature related to quality indicators in the standards
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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
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Racial and ethnic differences in welfare leavers' child care preferences: A factorial survey analysis [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of differences by race and ethnicity in welfare leavers' preferences for various characteristics of child care settings
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Review and synthesis of selected research reports submitted to the Child Care Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [Executive summary]
A summary of an overview of key findings, methodological developments, and policy implications from selected research projects funded by the Child Care Bureau, focusing on projects that study the use and effects of child care subsidies, parental choice of child care, improving and documenting child care quality, child care and early education partnerships, and characteristics of the child care workforce
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children who use it: Wave 1 report [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from the first wave of data collection for the In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care
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Access to early childhood education in Australia [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the concept and measurement of access to early childhood education in Australia, and of a study of variation in access to early childhood education by child characteristics, based on consultations with key stakeholders, a literature review, and secondary analyses of four national data sets
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Child care for working poor families: Child development and parent employment outcome [Executive Summary]
The summary of a research report on the types and quality of child care used by low income working families in four Indiana cities and their relation to child development and parent employment outcomes
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children that use it: Executive summary
A summary of findings from the two-and-a-half-year In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care
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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies [Executive Summary]
Summary of the first of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents
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Illinois study of license-exempt child care: Final report [Executive summary]
Summary of a study of subsidized license-exempt child care provision through the Illinois Child Care Assistance program (CCAP) in home care settings for 3 or fewer children, with a focus on the perspectives of subsidized caregivers and parents
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Welfare-to-work transitions for parents of infants: In-depth study of eight communities [Executive summary]
Summary of a study of welfare-to-work transitions for parents with infants in eight communities within six states
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Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW process evaluation: Executive summary
A summary of an evaluation of STARS for KIDS NOW, Kentucky's child care quality rating and improvement system, that examines the STARS standards, rating structure, technical assistance system, outreach efforts, service coordination, and administrative processes
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Design phase of the National Study of Early Child Care Supply and Demand (NSECCSD): Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of a description of a proposed design for a study on the functions of supply and demand in the child care market, including a discussion of public policy questions addressed through the implementation of the proposed study
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