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Growing Up in Poverty Project 

Resource Type: Major Research Projects
Author(s): Fuller, Bruce;
Date Issued: [n.d]
Publisher(s): Yale University; Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; MDRC; Stanford University; Teachers College Press; Policy Analysis for California Education (Organization)
Description: A longitudinal study of the effects of mothers moving from welfare-to-work on their economic well-being, home environment, child care quality and use, and their young children's early development
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Preparer(s): Kagan, Sharon Lynn; Loeb, Susanna; Carrol, Bidemi; Carroll, Jude; Chang, Yueh-Wen; Cook, Ginger; Kreicher, Gege; McCarthy, Jan; Sprachman, Susan; French, Desiree; Mensing, James; Caspary, Gretchen
Funder(s): Luke B. Hancock Foundation ; Spencer Foundation ; Miriam and Peter Haas Fund ; Annie E. Casey Foundation ; United States. Department of Education ; United States. Child Care Bureau ; California. Department of Social Services ; William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund ; David & Lucile Packard Foundation ; A. L. Mailman Family Foundation ; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Alernative Title: GUP Project
Source: Berkeley, CA: Policy Analysis for California Education
Topics: Children & Child Development

Policies > Economic & Social Policies > Employment Policies
Country: United States
States: CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA
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