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Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for preschool- and young school-aged children
Crosby, Danielle A., 2001
(The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 3). New York: MDRC.

An examination of the effects of welfare and employment policies on child care outcomes for single parents, and their preschool- to young school-aged children, using data from experimental programs implemented between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s

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Welfare to work and child care selection: Which families use subsidies and home-based or center care?
Hirshberg, Diane, 2002
(Working Paper 02-5). Berkeley, CA: Policy Analysis for California Education.

A study of child care subsidy use and use of home-based or center-based child care for 1,974 parents in California

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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
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

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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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies
Adams, Gina, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

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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Nonstandard schedules and young children's behavioral outcomes among working low-income families
Joshi, Pamela, February 2007
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 69(1), 139-156

An examination of how mothers' nonstandard night, weekend, or rotating work schedules affect their preschool children's behavior

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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: State and Community Substudy: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families, September 2007
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A study of ongoing changes in state and community policies for meeting the child care needs of low-income families as a result of welfare reform implementation, including child care subsidy use and expenditures from 1997 to 2001 and child care subsidy policies and their administration from 1999 to 2002, based on administrative records, policy manuals, and key informant interviews from 17 states and 25 communities

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The negotiation of child care and employment demands among low-income parents
Henly, Julia R., 2000
Journal of Social Issues, 56(4), 683-706

An examination of urban, low-income mothers’ disproportionate use of informal child care arrangements

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Family child care finances and their effect on quality and incentives
Helburn, Suzanne W., 2002
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(4), 512-538

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

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Child care and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
United States. Government Accountability Office, 2006
(GAO-06-807). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office.

A study examining access to, participation in, and efforts to assist with child care for families with limited English proficiency, based on analysis of national data sets, focus groups with parents, state and county site visits, and interviews with officials and experts

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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: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August, 2007
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

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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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)

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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

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The challenges of change: Learning from the child care and early education experiences of immigrant families
Matthews, Hannah, May 2007
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A study of the child care and early education participation of children of immigrants and barriers to accessing child care and early education services for immigrant families, based on interviews with local leaders, policymakers, child care and early education service providers, and immigrant parents conducted during community site visits

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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

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New lives for poor families?: Mothers and young children move through welfare reform: The Growing Up in Poverty Project: Wave 2 findings: California, Connecticut, and Florida: Technical report
Fuller, Bruce, 2002
Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.

A study of the long-term effects of welfare reform on mothers' employment, children's development, and family well-being among a sample of mothers and preschool-age children who entered new welfare programs in California, Connecticut, and Florida

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