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
Executive Summary
Understanding the social and spatial neighborhood context for working mothers: An examination of child care services and outcomes
A study of the role of neighborhood and local child care market characteristics in mothers' child care decision-making, based on data from the Philadelphia Survey of Child Care and Work, a stratified, random cluster sample of 1,070 mothers, as well as on data from the 2000 Census and on administrative data on licensed child care providers in Philadelphia
Reports & Papers
Stability of child care in rural low-income families
An exploration of factors that contribute to rural low income mothers' decisions to change child care arrangements, including discussions of the types of changes these mothers tend to make and why, and the relationship between instability in child care and maternal employment, based on data from Rural Families Speak, a longitudinal multi-method national research project
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National data sets: Sources of information for Canadian child care data
Descriptions of Canadian national data sets that can be used to examine child care, as well as studies that have used them and future research questions that can be answered with them
Other
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care progress report on child care in Ontario
A review of the effectiveness of the Ontario, Canada, government's Best Start, a plan to increase integration in and access to early childhood services
Other
Keeping the promise: A study of the Massachusetts child care voucher system: Final report
A multimethod study of the impacts of the Massachusetts child care voucher system on children, families, and child care providers, based on in-depth interviews with mothers, child care center directors, and family child care providers; surveys of child care resource and referral agency staff, and families; and tracking the flow of vouchers through child care centers over a 12 month period
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