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Working later in Illinois: Works schedules, incomes and parents? access to child care 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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Steps to Excellence Program implementation plan: Launching a child care quality rating system in Los Angeles County A discussion of implementation strategies for the Step Up to Excellence Program (STEP), a child care quality rating and improvement system to assist parents in Los Angeles County, California in their child care decisions |
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Child care before 6 months of age: A qualitative study of mothers' decisions and feelings about employment and non-maternal care A qualitative study of British mothers' beliefs in terms of infant child care and employment, examining reasons for returning to work, process of selecting child care, range and type of advice received, and involvement of fathers |
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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 |
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The mismatch between employment and child care in Italy: The impact of rationing An examination of the child care system in Italy, with a focus on the disconnect between characteristics of care available under the current system and the characteristics of care required for full maternal participation in the Italian labor market, based on an analysis of employment and child care data using an econometric model of maternal child care decisions |
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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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Choice and accommodation in parental child care decisons An overview of research on the determinants of child care use and choice, including socioeconomic status, demographic characteristics, price, parental employment status, and quality of care |
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Female labour participation and child care choices in Spain An exploration of the relationship between maternal labor participation and families' child care choices, based on a subsample of 1,970 households who participated in the Spanish Time-Use Survey |
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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 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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Putting child care in the regional economy: Empirical and conceptual challenges and economic development prospects An analysis of the methodological and conceptual challenges faced in constructing a regional economic analysis of the child care and early education sector in the United States |
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Child care arrangements for toddlers and preschoolers: Are they different for youngest children? An analysis of child care arrangements for the youngest children of families, examining the effect of family characteristics on observed differences of child care arrangements |
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Examining child care need among military families A study of the child care choices and unmet child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members |
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Child care, female employment, and economic growth An examination of the relations among child care choices, maternal employment, and regional economic growth, including the importance of community work/family support systems |
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Providing child care to military families: The role of the demand formula in defining need and informing policy A study assessing the ability of the U.S. Department of Defense's formula for calculating child care demand to meet the actual child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members |
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Child-care effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development A report of findings on the effect sizes for exclusive maternal care and, for children in child care, for type, quality, and quantity of care, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development |
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Rethinking the child care sector An analysis of the interactions between paid and unpaid child care work and their implications for economic models of the child care sector |
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2005 report on child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand An examination of the disconnect between child care supply and demand in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability and hours of care needed by parents |
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Smarter reform: Moving beyond single-program solutions to an early care and education system A proposal for a range of investment strategies and institutional support commensurate with a high-quality ECE system that takes into account the complexity of early care and education markets |
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Costs, benefits, and long term effects of early care and education programs: Recommendations and cautions for community developers A review of the basis of claims related to the costs, benefits, and long-term effects of child care and early education programs, including effects on parental earnings and young children's academic achievements and development |
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Beyond looking backward: Is child care a key economic sector? An economic analysis of the child care system in New York State, using a hypothetical extraction approach |
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Who's caring for our children?: A profile of the 2005 workforce in licensed and voluntarily registered centers and homes in South Hampton Roads, Virginia A description of characteristics of the child care workforce in the South Hampton Roads area of Virginia, based on a survey of child care providers |
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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 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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Caring for children of color: The child care patterns of white, black, and Hispanic children under 5 A study of child care arrangement patterns across groups of white, African American and Hispanic children |
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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies 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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Missing work and quitting work: Child care-related employment problems A quantitative analysis of child care related employment problems among urban working mothers of infants which assesses the effectiveness of social support, the complexity of work and child care arrangements, and demographic characteristics regarding these problems |
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