Child Care
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Research in this area furthers our understanding of child care as a support for parental employment and for children’s developmental well being, and of the role of child care subsidies in allowing low-income working parents to balance work and family obligations.
Projects on this Topic
Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS), 2010-2014
The purpose of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is to explore the application of behavioral economics principles to the programs and target populations of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)...
Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners, 2009-2013
The Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners (CECER-DLL) is a cooperative agreement awarded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The primary goal of the Center...
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, 2008-2013
The project will create a comprehensive, up-to-date database of child care subsidy policies for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories, and from the information in this database, to create books of tables and analytic files that...
Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project, 2005-2013
The Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project is a contract awarded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation to Child Trends. The purpose of this contract is to support the provision of expert...
Child Care and Early Education RESEARCH CONNECTIONS, 1998-2013
Research Connections is a web-based, interactive database of research documents and public use data sets for conducting secondary analyses on topics related to early care and education...
Child Care Research Partnerships, 1995-2013
The Child Care Research Partnership grants support research on child care policy issues conducted by state agencies, researchers and other organizations in partnership. Partnerships must include the State agency that administers the Child Care and...
Child Care Research Scholars, 2000-2012
Funds for Child Care Research Scholars grants are available to support dissertation research on child care policy issues in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies...
Child Care State Research Capacity Cooperative Agreements, 2001-2011
The Child Care State Research Capacity cooperative agreements have three main goals...
Development of a Measure of the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT), 2010-2013
The goal of this project is to develop a new measure that will assess the quality of child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver-child interactions for infants and toddlers in non-parental care. The new measure will be sensitive to...
National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), 2010-2014
The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) will document the nation's current utilization and availability of early care and education (including school-age care), in order to deepen the understanding of the extent to which families'...
Quality Features, Dosages and Thresholds and Child Outcomes: Study Design (Q-Dot), 2009-2012
This project will examine associations between the quality of early care and education settings and child outcomes, asking whether certain thresholds of quality or dosage need to be met or particular aspects of quality need to be present before...
Quality Rating Systems (QRS) Assessment Project, 2008-2011
The project will create resources for States regarding the evaluation of child care quality rating systems (QRSs), systems that have been put in place to measure, monitor, and promote high-quality child care. The project has five goals...
Secondary Analyses of Data on Child Care, 2009-2011
Since 2000, Congress has appropriated about $10 million per year of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) discretionary funds to be used for child care research and evaluation. These funds have supported projects that add to our knowledge about the...
Study of Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce, 2010-2012
The purpose of this project, awarded to The National Academy of Sciences, is to establish a panel of independent experts to develop a study of the nation's Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) workforce...
TANF and CCDF Research Synthesis, 2009-2011
The purpose of the TANF and CCDF Research Synthesis Project was to inform research planning and support evidence-based decision making related to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) programs...
Child Care Policy Research Grants, 2000-2010
Child Care Policy Research Grants have three main goals...
Design Phase for National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), 2007-2010
This project (aka Design Phase for National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand) developed sampling and methodology options for a National Survey of Early Care and Education, with special focus on low-income households with children ages birth...
Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies, 2001-2010
The Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies conducted four experiments as part of a study launched in 2001 by the Office of Child Care and the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, US...
National Study of Child Care of Low-Income Families, 1997-2007
The National Study of Child Care of Low-Income Families project studied the low-income child care market in 25 communities in 17 states, with a sub-study to examine the family child care market in 5 neighborhoods drawn from these communities...
Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care, 2007-2010
In 2007, the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded a research project, Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care, to...
