Project: Research Connections

Child Care Decision-Making

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Bibliography 
  • Post date April 1, 2014

Learn about our Research Connections project. Child care plays an important role in supporting families, from children’s development to parents’ employment. The complex process by which families find child care arrangements is informed by their preferences for features of care arrangements and constrained by such factors as availability, accessibility, affordability, and awareness of supply. A […]

Parent Engagement

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Bibliography 
  • Post date April 1, 2014

Learn about our Research Connections project. The concept of parent engagement has been used to describe parent behavior, expectations, and activities that have the potential to promote children’s learning and development. Here the term is used to refer to parents’ support for their young children’s learning fostered through relationships with child care and early education […]

Subsidized Child Care and Quality

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Bibliography 
  • Post date February 1, 2014

Learn about our Research Connections project. A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on subsidized child care and quality, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature and a listing of resources about the relationships among child care subsidies, program quality, and child outcomes, as well as resources on policy considerations related to […]

What Can CCDF Learn from the Research on Children’s Health and Safety in Child Care?

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2012

Learn about our Research Connections project. What’s Inside… This report examines research on health and safety components that lead to better care and healthier outcomes for children. We discuss research on key CCDF health and safety categories such as prevention and control of infectious disease, safe buildings and physical premises, and health and safety training, […]

Quality in Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care Settings

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2011

Learn about our Research Connections project. This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction Currently, more than 60 percent of children in the United States under the age of 5 are in some type of non-parental child care on a regular basis ( Johnson, 2005) and care by family, friends, and neighbors (FFN care) […]

A Guide to Understanding State Child Care Subsidy Programs Through Analysis of Public and Non-public Use Datasets

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2009

Learn about our Research Connections project. This is an excerpt from the full report. SECTION I: INTRODUCTION Purpose of the Guidebook This guide has been developed to assist researchers in using public and non-public use U.S. Census Bureau data as well as public and non-public use state administrative data—both separately and in combinations—to analyze state-specific […]

Guide to Datasets for Research and Policymaking in Child Care and Early Education

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Bibliography 
  • Post date January 1, 2009

Learn about our Research Connections project. Introduction This guide is an annotated bibliography of available large-scale databases that provide information useful to researchers, policymakers, state administrators, and others concerned about child care and early education. The guide follows an ecological approach to research and policy in the field: it brings attention not only to children, […]

Demographics of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care in the United States

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2008

Learn about our Research Connections project. This research brief is part of a Research Connections’ Review of Research package. For more in-depth information on the topic see the accompanying Literature Review. What We Know Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care (also referred to as informal care, home-based care, kith and kin care, kin care, […]