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School-age child care arrangements
Lawrence, Sharmila; Kreader, J. Lee; , October 2006

A summary of current research, drawn from nationally representative surveys, on the types and usage of nonparental child care arrangements for school age children

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Guide to datasets for research and policymaking in child care and early education
Romero, Mariajose; Douglas-Hall, Ayana; , January 2009

An annotated bibliography of existing large-scale datasets that provide useful information to policymakers, researchers, and others in the field of child care and early education in the United States

Other

Child care for low-income school-age children: Disability and family structure effects in a national sample
Parish, Susan L.; Cloud, Jennifer M.; , 2006

A study using nationally representative data to examine the use and quality of child care for school aged children from low income families, investigating the relations among child care use and quality, disability status, and family characteristics

Reports & Papers

Summer child care arrangements
Urban Institute; , 2004

A summary of findings from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families on the summer child care arrangements of school age children during the summer of 1999

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Single mothers working at night: Standard work, child care subsidies, and implications for welfare reform
Tekin, Erdal; , September 2004

An analysis of the impact that child care subsidies have on helping single mothers find jobs with standard schedules, and how this influence differs between welfare recipients and nonrecipients

Reports & Papers

Child care subsidy receipt, employment, and child care choices of single mothers
Tekin, Erdal; , 2004

A study of the influence of subsidy receipt on the employment rates and child care choices of single mothers, based on questionnaire responses, collected in 1999, from 2,226 single mothers in a nationally representative sample of American families

Reports & Papers

Welfare reform, child care considerations, and migration decisions
Kepner, Valerie K. , Fall 2009

A study of the relationship between women's decisions to move and differences in states' welfare program characteristics, family lifetime utility, family characteristics, and choice of child care type, from a secondary analysis of data collected from single mothers with less than a high school education and with at least one child under the age of 6

Reports & Papers

National Survey of America's Families. 1999 NSAF questionnaire
Wang, Kevin; Cantor, David; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; , 2001

A report of the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families questionnaire as well as full text, the household screener and extended interview, a description of respondent selection, types of interviews, and family definition as well as differences in survey instrumentation between the 1997 and 1999.

Other

A description of employed parents using child care in Washington state
Maher, Erin J.; Chen, Angela Chia-Chen; , 2004

A study of the child care arrangements, earnings, and industries of employed parents using child care in Washington state, with a focus on child care subsidy receipt in Seattle, based on analyses of data from surveys including the National Survey of America's Families, 1999

Reports & Papers

The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers
Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal; , 2003

A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

Reports & Papers

Single mothers working at night: Standard work and child care subsidies
Tekin, Erdal; , April 2007

An examination of the effect of child care subsidies on the choice of single low-income mothers to work standard or nonstandard hours

Reports & Papers

Arranging and paying for child care
O'Brien-Strain, Margaret; Moye, Laura; Sonenstein, Freya Lund; , 2003

A report on the child care arrangements, payment methods, preschool enrollment, and potential costs of universal preschool provision in California

Reports & Papers

Child care, disability, and family structure: Use and quality in a population-based sample of low-income preschool children
Parish, Susan L.; Cloud, Jennifer M.; Huh, Jungwon; Henning, Ashley N.; , 2005

A study of the cost, quality, amount of use, and type of child care used by low income families with disabled children, as well as how care varies by family structure, based on data from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF)

Reports & Papers

National Survey of America's Families, 2002
Urban Institute; Child Trends; , 2004

A cross-sectional survey of the economic, health, and social characteristics of families in the United States including such topics as child health care, child well being, child behavior problems, child care use, child education and cognitive development, and child social and emotional development.

Data Sets

Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report
Ward, Helen D.; Morris, Lisa M.; Atkins, Julie A.; Herrick, Angela; Morris, Patricia; Oldham, Erin; , December, 2006

A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families

Reports & Papers

What happens when the school year is over?: The use and costs of child care for school-age children during the summer months
Capizzano, Jeffrey; Adelman, Sarah; Stagner, Matthew; , 2002

An examination of child care arrangements and time spent in care among 6- to 12-year-old children during the summer using data from the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families

Reports & Papers

Children cared for by relatives: What do we know about their well-being?
Billing, Amy; Ehrle, Jennifer; Kortenkamp, Katherine; , 2002

A discussion of the role of relative child care on child behavioral and cognitive development using data from the 1997 and 1999 Survey of American's Families

Reports & Papers

Primary child care arrangements of employed parents: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families
Sonenstein, Freya Lund; Gates, Gary J.; Schmidt, Stefanie; Bolshun, Natalya; , 2002

A discussion of data from the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families focusing on child care arrangements for children under the age of 13 with employed parents

Reports & Papers

Left unsupervised: A look at the most vulnerable children
Vandivere, Sharon; Tout, Kathryn; Capizzano, Jeffrey; Zaslow, Martha; , 2003

A data analysis of a national survey of families examining characteristics and family circumstances of low income children and youngest school age children who are left unsupervised

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Effective and promising summer learning programs and approaches for economically-disadvantaged children and youth: A white paper for the Wallace Foundation
Terzian, Mary; Moore, Kristin A.; Hamilton, Kathleen; , July 10, 2009

An analysis of the characteristics that predict children's summer program participation, based on the nationally representative National Survey of America's Families 1999, and an overview of research on the impacts of summer learning programs and on the characteristics of effective programs

Reports & Papers

National Survey of America's Families, 1997
Urban Institute; Child Trends; , 1999

A cross-sectional survey of the economic, health, and social characteristics of families in the United States including such topics as child health care, child well being, child behavior problems, child care use, child education and cognitive development, and child social and emotional development.

Data Sets

What are kids getting into these days?: Demographic differences in youth out-of school time participation
Wimer, Christopher; Bouffard, Suzanne; Caronongan, Pia; Dearing, Eric; Simpkins, Sandra; Little, Priscilla; Weiss, Heather B.; , 2006

A study of the demographic characteristics that predict out-of-school youth program participation

Reports & Papers

Assessing the New Federalism
Weil, Alan; ,

A multi-year, multi-pronged project that analyzes state policy choices (including policy development and implementation) and family well-being in the context of the significant devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states

Major Research Projects

Children of current and former welfare recipients: Similarly at risk
Tout, Kathryn; Scarpa, Juliet P.; Zaslow, Martha; , 2002

A brief comparing the children of welfare recipients and welfare leavers on indicators of health, social behavior, and school engagement

Fact Sheets & Briefs

The use of relative care while parents work: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families
Snyder, Kathleen; Adelman, Sarah; , 2004

An investigation of the use of relative child care for children under the age of 13 years, utilizing data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families

Reports & Papers

Caring for children of color: The child care patterns of white, black, and Hispanic children under 5
Capizzano, Jeffrey; Adams, Gina; Ost, Jason; , 2006

A study of child care arrangement patterns across groups of white, African American and Hispanic children

Reports & Papers

Children in low-income families are less likely to be in center-based child care
Capizzano, Jeffrey; Adams, Gina; , 2004

A brief comparing the child care arrangements of children under five from high- and low-income families.

Fact Sheets & Briefs

The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal , October 2007

A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

Reports & Papers

Getting help with child care expenses
Giannarelli, Linda; Adelman, Sarah; Schmidt, Stefanie; , 2003

An analysis of the relationship between child care help and child care expenses for working families between 1997 and 1999

Reports & Papers

Child care subsidy receipt, employment, and child care choices of single mothers
Tekin, Erdal; , October 2005

An examination of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment and child care choices of single mothers

Reports & Papers

Child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers
Guzman, Julio; , March 2009

An examination of the relationship between child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers after 1996, based on data collected in 1999 and 2002 from the National Survey of America's Families, and an examination of the relationship between free public kindergarten for 5-year-old children and employment for different groups of mothers and groups of states, based on data from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 rounds of the American Community Survey

Reports & Papers