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Labor supply and child care costs: The effect of rationing An examination of the links between the availability of child care services and mothers’ employment decisions, based on a subsample of Italian households comprised of participants in the Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the ISTAT Multiscopo surveys |
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Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project The purpose of the competitive task order (TO) awarded to Child Trends is to support the provision of expert consultation, assessment and analysis in child care and early education policy and research to the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), including activities related to: providing expert advice, assistance and consultation in support of the agency's research priorities and goals; conducting studies to inform policy and practice and the development of new research priorities; identifying and refining measures and instruments to improve the collection of data related to program policies and practices, and to program outcomes for families and children, identifying sources of data and conducting statistical analyses on national and other original data-sets to answer questions of relevance to the Agency on child care utilization, child care supply, and the effects of child care and other early childhood policies on parental and child outcome; and, providing technical assistance and expertise in the preparation of written materials and convening of expert early childhood stakeholders. This task order also covers planning and facilitation of meetings of experts on child care research issues of relevance to the administration for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and other early childhood programs in States, Territories, and Tribes. |
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The influence of local price and availability on parents' choice of child care An analysis of results from a 1999 Minnesota survey conducted by Wilder Research Center of 2450 families with children under 15, focusing on family, child, and market characteristics that predict type of child care used for the youngest child |
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Child care for working poor families: Child development and parent employment outcomes Findings from a study of the types and quality of child care used by low income working families in four Indiana communities, and their relation to child development and parent employment outcomes |
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[Review of the book Time to care: Redesigning child care to promote education, support families, and build communities] A review of an argument in favor of a significant expansion of the actual United States government effort towards child care based on evidence from science and care practice as well as on the experiences of the author, a former Associate Commissioner of the United States Child Care Bureau |
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The value of family child care systems An examination of the features of different family child care network models |
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Infant and toddler child care arrangements An examination of employed parents’ child care arrangements for their infants and toddlers while working, at school, or otherwise unavailable to provide parental child care, and secondarily what factors influence the types of child care arrangements for children in the United States under the age of 3 |
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The effect of maternal employment and child care on children's cognitive development An investigation into the correlation between mothers’ employment decisions and children’s cognitive development, based on a subsample of 529 married or cohabiting women and their children from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) |
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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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Paternal child care and children's development A study of the effects of fathers as child care providers on children’s development, based on a sample of 4,162 children from families who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) |
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Child-care choices by working mothers: The case of Italy A paper examining Italian working mothers' child care choices, comparing mothers who select formal, public child care with mothers who opt for informal child care |
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Predictors of child care subsidy use: Table of methods and findings A table of methods and findings on child care subsidy use |
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Teasing apart the child care conundrum: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair market price and willingness to pay by low-income, African American parents An examination of methods used by low income families to evaluate child care quality, based on a sample of 143 low income African American mothers from the Philadelphia metropolitan area |
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Child care quality and consumer education: Final report: September 2000-September 2004 A study of the implementation and outcomes of Child Care Programs of Excellence, a quality rating and improvement system, in four counties in New York State |
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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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The National Post and the nanny state: Framing the child care debate in Canada A rebuttal to a series of articles written in the Canadian newspaper, National Post, entitled The Nanny State, which argued against the proposed National Child Care Program |
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Mothers' share of child care in low-income rural families An examination of factors related to the maternal share of total child care hours using data from the Rural Families Speak project, a longitudinal multistate study of low-income rural families |
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Inequality in children's school readiness and public funding An analysis of the relationship between the rise in public preschool funding and socioeconomic disparities in preschool enrollment, with considerations of preschool quality and its role in school readiness for disadvantaged children |
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Evaluating quality in state child care licensing: The Tennessee Report Card and Star-Quality Child Care Program Findings from an evaluation of the first three years of the Tennessee Report Card and Star-Quality Program, the state's child care quality rating and improvement system, with a focus on the support system component for technical assistance, professional development and training, and assessment |
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Illinois study of license-exempt child care: Final report A study of subsidized license-exempt child care providers 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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Stability and change in child care and employment: Evidence from three states An examination of patterns of child care use and employment stability among welfare recipients in Connecticut, Florida, and Minnesota |
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Maternal nonstandard work schedules and child cognitive outcomes 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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Low-fee ($5/day/child) regulated childcare policy and the labor supply of mothers with young children: A natural experiment from Canada A discussion on the economic influences of the influx of Canadian mothers with children in the workforce because of Canadian child care policy |
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Welfare reform: Reauthorization of work and child care: Hearing before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First session, March 15, 2005 An examination by the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and the Workforce discussing the effects of welfare reform, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant, and federal child care assistance to low-income families |
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Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative evaluation: Phase II final report An evaluation of the coordinated and comprehensive community-wide support services program, the Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative (ECI), targeting children from birth through age five and their families in Ohio |
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