Child care and parent labor force participation: a review of the research literature

TW Morrissey - Review of Economics of the Household, 2017 - Springer
Early care and education (ECE) enables parental employment and provides a context for
child development. Theory suggests that lower child care costs, through subsidized care or …

Poverty and the American family: A decade in review

K Edin, RJ Kissane - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Because of dramatic levels of economic volatility and massive changes in welfare policies,
scholars in this decade worried anew about whether our official poverty measure, adopted in …

[图书][B] Cradle to kindergarten: A new plan to combat inequality

A Chaudry, T Morrissey, C Weiland, H Yoshikawa - 2021 - books.google.com
Early care and education in the United States is in crisis. The period between birth and
kindergarten is a crucial time for a child's development. Yet vast racial, ethnic, and …

Structural and process features in three types of child care for children from high and low income families

CJ Dowsett, AC Huston, AE Imes… - Early childhood research …, 2008 - Elsevier
We use observations from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and, Youth Development
(SECCYD) to compare structural and process characteristics of child care centers, family …

Child care subsidies and child development

CM Herbst, E Tekin - Economics of Education review, 2010 - Elsevier
Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare
recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is …

[图书][B] Higher ground: New hope for the working poor and their children

GJ Duncan, AC Huston, TS Weisner - 2007 - books.google.com
During the 1990s, growing demands to end chronic welfare dependency culminated in the
1996 federal" welfare-to-work" reforms. But regardless of welfare reform, the United States …

Early education: Progress and promise for children from low-income families

K Magnuson, H Shager - Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 - Elsevier
It has become normative for children to attend some type of early education before entering
kindergarten; yet, gaps in enrollment suggest that children from low-income families, who …

Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work

EK Scott, AS London, A Hurst - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We use longitudinal, qualitative interview data collected from 38 initially welfare‐reliant
women in Cleveland, Ohio to examine the factors driving instability in child‐care …

Impacts on children of a policy to promote employment and reduce poverty for low-income parents: new hope after 5 years.

AC Huston, GJ Duncan, VC McLoyd… - Developmental …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The impacts of New Hope, a program to increase parent employment and reduce
poverty, were measured 5 years after parents were randomly assigned to program or control …

Child‐care subsidies: Do they impact the quality of care children experience?

AD Johnson, RM Ryan, J Brooks‐Gunn - Child development, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The federal child‐care subsidy program represents one of the government's largest
investments in early care and education, but little is known about whether it increases low …