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 …

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 …

Scholarship on work and family topics expanded in scope and coverage during the 2000–
2010 decade, spurred by an increased diversity of workplaces and of families, by …

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups,
and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives …

Social scientists do not agree on the size and nature of the causal impacts of parental
income on children's achievement. We revisit this issue using a set of welfare and …

American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-
century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education …

Rising rates of nonmarital childbirth in the United States have resulted in a new family type,
the fragile family. Such families, which include cohabiting couples as well as single mothers …

During the past two decades, the debate over the relation between family policy and
women's employment in high-income countries has grown in prominence. Nevertheless, the …

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and
recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's …

Using data from the Child Care Supplement to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing
Study, we test associations between the quality of child care and state child care policies …