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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

Lemke, Robert J. - 2000

education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …

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Who’s Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

Gordon, James - 2018

(i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find …

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2009

the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals …

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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Herbst, Chris M. - 2008

year before kindergarten lowers reading and math test scores and increases a variety of behavior problems at kindergarten … entry. Some of these negative effects persist to the end of kindergarten. A tentative explanation for the poorer outcomes is …

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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2008

is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then show … difference. We speculate that one reason for this positive education gradient relates to the investment aspect of time spent with …

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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...

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Single Mothers Working at Night : Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet?

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

We provide substantial evidence that placing child care provider inspection and complaint reports on the Internet changed the behavior of child care inspectors and improved the quality of child care received by low-income children. We believe that these results were forthcoming in part because:...

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Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2003

assistance and enrolled in some approved activity (e.g., education or training) other than work. We were not able to assess the …

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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

Blau, David - 2003

This paper provides an analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1999 National Survey of...

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