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Child care choices of Hispanic families: Why aren't families using center care?
Daugherty, Lindsay, 2010
(RGSD-258). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pardee Rand Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA.

An examination of the relationship between families? access to child care by relatives, access to child care centers, and the role of language barriers in child care decisions by Hispanic families, based on data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) on children aged birth through 5 and not enrolled in kindergarten

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Child care professional development provider surveys
Kane, Stephanie L., June, 2010
(SSRU Technical Report 09-04-15). Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, Social Science Research Unit.

A study of the characteristics of Idaho child care workers and facilities, including worker education, training, experience, income, and career decisions, and facility type, employment, and enrollment of children with disabilities or medical conditions, based on surveys from 656 workers

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State of Care Index
Care.com, March, 2010
Waltham, MA: Care.com.

A study of decision-making related to child and senior caregiving, including the roles of employer benefits and parent gender, responses to child care crises, altering primary child care arrangements, and balancing work and caregiving, based on survey responses from 917 parents and care advocates

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The Mother's Voices Project: Final report
New Brunswick Child Care Coalition, 2010
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: New Brunswick Child Care Coalition.

Findings from an exploration of mothers' experiences of the social and economic implications of child care arrangements in New Brunswick, Canada

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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

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Resource use of rural low-income families caring for children with disabilities
Powell, Sharon E., March 2010
Journal of Children & Poverty, 16(1), 67-83

An examination of rural low-income families resource use to find and maintain employment and child care from data from 26 families caring for children with disabilities from the Rural Families Speak project, a 14-state longitudinal study to assess changes in well being and functioning of low-income rural families in the context of welfare reform

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Factors predicting early childhood education and care use by immigrant families
Kahn, Jessica M., July 2010
Social Science Research, 39(4), 642-651

An examination of differences in the relationship between child and family characteristics and the use of relative care, nonrelative care, and center based care for children of foreign born mothers versus children of native-born mothers, based on data from the National Household Education Survey, 2005

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Who should care for our kids?: The effects of infant child care on early child development
Peng, Duan, March, 2010
Journal of Children & Poverty, 16(1), 1-45

An examination that accounts for selection into care type of the relationship between various types of child care during the first year of a child's life and the child's language and social development measured at age 3 from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study data

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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is served and what are their nutritional outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel A., July 2010
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 16148). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

An inquiry into whether the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) reaches its targeted population, and an examination of the relationship between the food intake, weight, and food security of CACFP participants, based on data on more than 10,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

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Assessing policy effects on enrollment in early childhood education and care
Greenberg, Joy Pastan, September 2010
Social Service Review, 84(3), 461-490

A study of the relationship between public spending for early childhood education and care and low-income children's enrollment in various types of early childhood education and care settings, based on secondary analyses of nationally representative household data collected between 1991 and 2005

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The impact of child care subsidies on child well-being: Evidence from geographic variation in the distance to social service agencies
Herbst, Chris M., July 2010
(Discussion Paper No. 5102). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

A study of the short- and long-term impact of child care subsidy receipt in the year before kindergarten entry on children’s cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor outcomes, based on data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K)

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The impact of child care subsidies on child well-being: Evidence from geographic variation in the distance to social service agencies
Herbst, Chris M., August 2010
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 16250). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

A study of the short- and long-term impact of child care subsidy receipt in the year before kindergarten entry on children’s cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor outcomes, based on data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K)

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Effects of mothers' employment on toddlers' cognitive development: A study conducted in Karachi, Pakistan
Meherali, Salima Moez, 2010
Early Child Development and Care, , 1-14

A study of the relationships between toddlers' cognitive development and maternal employment, mothers' education, socioeconomic status and child care arrangements, based on a convenience sample of 100 children between 24 and 36 months of age and their mothers in Karachi, Pakistan

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How responsive is female labour supply to child care costs: New Australian estimates
Gong, Xiaodong, August 2010
(Discussion Paper No. 5119). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

An investigation of the effect of child care costs on maternal employment rates and child care demand, based on data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey for 2005 through 2007

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Child-care availability and fertility in Norway
Rindfuss, Ronald, December 2010
Population and Development Review, 36(4), 725-748

An examination of the relationships among the availability of child care services, fertility rates, and female labor market participation, based on municipal-level data on women's employment and available child care, and national data for all women across the country of Norway

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Preschoolers enrolled and mothers at work?: The effects of universal prekindergarten
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan, January 2010
Journal of Labor Economics, 28(1), 51-85

An estimation of the effects of universal prekindergarten availability on both preschool enrollment and maternal labor supply based on data from the Census and birthday-based kindergarten eligibility cutoffs

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Local links, local knowledge: Choosing care settings and schools
Vincent, Carol, April, 2010
British Educational Research Journal, 36(2), 279-298

A study of class differences in choices of child care and primary school settings from interviews with two samples, one of 59 families and caregivers, and one of 70 families, both in inner London

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Sequence of child care type and child development: What role does peer exposure play?
Morrissey, Taryn, Q1 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(1), 33-50

An examination of associations between school readiness, social stimulation and the timing of child care type among 3 groups of children in either continuous home care, continuous center care, or both home care and center care from a sample of 1,349 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?: Evidence from non-linear difference-in-differences
Havnes, Tarjei, May 2010
(Discussion Paper Series No. 4978). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

An examination of the influence of access to universal and subsidized child care on children's long-term outcomes, based on administrative data from Norway's population for 1967 through 2006

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2010 Oregon child care market price study
Grobe, Deana, December 2010
Salem: Oregon, Department of Human Services.

A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the state of Oregon in 2010 by provider type and age of child

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The early years report: Early learning in PEI: An investment in the island's future
Flanagan, Kathleen, 12 April, 2010
Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

An exploration of the quality, sustainability, and public investment in the early childhood education and care system in Prince Edwards Island, Canada

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Child care choices and children's cognitive achievement: The case of single mothers
Bernal, Raquel, 25 January, 2010
Unpublished manuscript, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

An investigation of the effect of child care attendance and mother-child interactions on children's cognitive achievement, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort (NLSY79)

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Socioeconomic disparities in North Carolina communities: Issues of access and quality of licensed child care
Lower, Joanna K., 2010
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

A study of the relationships among child care quality, community socioeconomic context, program characteristics, public funding receipt, and quality rating system participation at child care sites throughout North Carolina, based on analyses of multiple sources of data on the state's communities and from thousands of licensed child care locations across the state

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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Year 3
Tout, Kathryn, November, 2010
Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Early Learning Foundation.

Findings from an implementation and process evaluation of the third year of Parent Aware, Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including information on program characteristics and stakeholder perspectives

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