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The Impact of Childhood Behavior Problems on Child Care and Employment Decision-Making: A Nationally Representative Panel Study

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The goal of this study is to examine associations between childhood behavior problems and the stability of child care and employment among working families. Particular attention is paid to autism and childhood behavior problems that may go undiagnosed. The study follows a nationally representative sample of 1500 parents and children ages birth-13, selected from Gallup panel data which includes an oversample of low-income respondents, and a comparison group of parents of children with autism, also selected from Gallup panel data. Both descriptive and multivariate analyses are conducted, and an instrumental variable approach is applied to address possible endogeneity. The expected benefits of this project are to document the influence of behavior problems on child care and employment at the national level, to inform Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) eligibility criteria for children ages birth-13 with undiagnosed developmental and/or behavior problems, and to build research capacity by linking child care research to autism research and develop two nationally representative longitudinal public domain datasets.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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