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Family Well-Being & Child Development |
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Child Care & Early Education |
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The Effects of Child Care Subsidies for Moderate-Income Families in Cook County, Illinois
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
2010. Charles Michalopolous, Erika Lundquist, and Nina Castells.
This report seeks to answer two policy questions: whether providing subsidies to families whose incomes are just over the state’s eligibility limit affects their child care and employment outcomes, and whether extending the length of time before families must reapply for subsidies affects the receipt of subsidies and related outcomes.
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Effects of Reducing Child Care Subsidy Copayments in Washington State
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
2010. Charles Michalopoulos.
This final report of a two-year evaluation is intended to help states determine how to structure child care subsidy programs. Focusing on how much families should be required to contribute when they receive child care subsidies, the study examined the effects of reduced copayments on subsidy use, employment and earnings, and receipt of public assistance.
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Making Preschool More Productive
How Classroom Management Training Can Help Teachers
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2010. Pamela Morris, C. Cybele Raver, Megan Millenky, Stephanie Jones, and Chrishana M. Lloyd.
Foundations of Learning provided training and in-class support to teachers to help guide children’s behavior and emotional development. In Newark, NJ, the program improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and increased children’s engagement. A year later, few effects for children were sustained as they entered kindergarten, but teachers were still engaged in positive practices.
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Promoting Preschool Quality Through Effective Classroom Management
Implementation Lessons from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration
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2009. Chrishana M. Lloyd and Michael Bangser, with Farrah Parkes.
Foundations of Learning provided in-class training and support to teachers, and one-on-one clinical services to children, to enhance preschool quality. This report offers lessons regarding program design, management, staffing, and professional development issues that arose during implementation in Newark, NJ.
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Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children’s Experiences in Preschool?
A Preview of Findings from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration
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2009. Pamela Morris, Cybele Raver, Chrishana M. Lloyd, and Megan Millenky.
Early evaluation results from Newark, NJ, show that Foundations of Learning improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and engaged students in the learning tasks of preschool. The intervention was implemented in Head Start programs, community-based child care centers, and public schools.
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Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children
New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s
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2005. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. Social Policy Report Volume XIX, No.2.
In welfare and employment programs that provide earnings supplements, increased family income plays a key role in improving children’s school achievement.
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Stability and Change in Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Three States
Working Paper
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2005. Cynthia Miller.
In a study of over 3,500 women in welfare-to-work programs in three states, child care instability did not appear to be a major cause of employment instability.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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The Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Child Care Use by Low-Income Young Mothers
Working Paper
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2003. Anna Gassman-Pines.
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The Effects of Welfare Policy on Child Care Decisions
Evidence from Ten Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Philip K. Robins.
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Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Charles Michalopoulos.
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Out of Their Hands
Patching Together Care for Children When Parents Move from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Ellen Scott, Allison Hurst, and Andrew S. London.
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Instability in Child Care
Ethnographic Evidence from Working Poor Families in the New Hope Intervention
Working Paper
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2003. Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner, Sonya Geis.
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"Making A Way Out of No Way"
How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, Ellen Scott, and Vicki Hunter.
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Staying Single
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Virginia Knox.
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Making Child Care Choices
How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions
Policy Brief
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner.
Congressional deliberations on the future of welfare reform have reopened a debate about whether current child care assistance programs adequately support employment among low-income working parents while also fostering their children's development. Issues at the forefront of this debate are explored in this timely new policy brief.
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Effects of Welfare and Anti-Poverty Policies on Adult Economic and Middle-Childhood Outcomes Differ for the "Hardest to Employ"
Working Paper
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2002. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Katherine A. Magnuson, Johannes M. Bos, and JoAnn Hsueh.
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How Child Care Assistance in Welfare and Employment Programs Can Support the Employment of Low-Income Families
Working Paper
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston, and Edward D. Lowe.
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The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Children's Participation in Head Start
Working Paper
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2002. Young Eun Chang, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, and Lisa A. Gennetian.
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How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
A Synthesis of Research
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London.
The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the effects of welfare and work programs on the teenaged children of program enrollees.
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Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
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2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Family and Individual Predictors of Child Care Use by Low-Income Families in Difference Policy Contexts
Working Paper
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2002. Aletha C. Huston, Young Eug Chang, Lisa Gennetian.
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Identifying Effects of Income on Children's Development
Integrating and Instrumental Variables Analytic Method with an Experimental Design
Working Paper
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2002. Pamela A. Morris and Lisa A. Gennetian.
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"You have to push it — who's gonna raise your kids?"
Situating Child Care and Child Care Subsidy Use in the Daily Routines of Lower-Income Families
Working Paper
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2001. Edward D. Lowe and Thomas S. Weisner.
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My Children Come First
Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
Working Paper
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2001. Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis.
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Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Pre-School-Aged Children
Working Paper
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2001. Danielle A. Crosby, Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston.
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Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care
Working Paper
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2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston.
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A Review of Child Care Policies in Experimental Welfare and Employment Programs
Working Paper
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2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Anna Gassman-Pines, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe.
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How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income
A Synthesis of Research
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2001. Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos.
This monograph synthesizes the results of rigorous studies of 29 welfare reform initiatives evaluated by MDRC over the past 15 years. It examines how three policies that form the core of most state's current welfare programs — mandatory employment services, earnings supplements, and time limits on welfare receipt — affect employment, welfare receipt, and income.
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How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children
A Synthesis of Research
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2001. Pamela A. Morris, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Danielle A. Crosby,
Johannes M. Bos.
This monograph assesses the effects on children of three policies that now form part of many states' current welfare packages: providing financial supports to working families, requiring single parents to work or to participate in work-related activities, and putting time limits on welfare benefits.
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