In this article, we use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten Cohort to analyze the links between preschool attendance and the school readiness of children of immigrants. Copyright (c) 2006 Southwestern Social Science Association.

Child care and early education policies may not only raise average achievement but may also be of special benefit for less advantaged children, in particular if programs are high quality. We test whether high quality child care is equalizing using rich longitudinal data from two comparison...

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 might benefit the most from such services, remain the least likely to receive them. The public sector engages in...

This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to examine whether family instability is associated with changes in perceived social support, material hardship, maternal depression, and parenting stress among mothers of young children. In addition to accounting for the...

In this article, we use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten Cohort to analyze the links between preschool attendance and the school readiness of children of immigrants. Copyright (c) 2006 Southwestern Social Science Association.

<title>Abstract</title> Voucher‐based programs have become the most common form of housing assistance for low‐income families in the United States, yet only a slim majority of households that are offered vouchers actually move with them. This article uses data from 2,938 households in the Moving to...

The <italic>Gautreaux</italic> program was one of the first major residential mobility programs in the United States, providing low-income black families from public housing with opportunities to relocate to more affluent white neighborhoods in the Chicago suburbs and in other city neighborhoods. This paper...

This paper examines mobility in the <italic>Gautreaux</italic> Two Housing Mobility Program, which attempted to alleviate poverty concentration by offering vouchers to residents of highly distressed Chicago public housing developments. In contrast to the original <italic>Gautreaux</italic> program, placement moves in <italic>Gautreaux</italic>...