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Jennifer W. Bouek – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
This article theorizes the wait list as an underexamined vehicle of administrative burden. Wait lists are now common within the U.S. social safety net, yet little research has considered their administration. Drawing on a surprising case of Massachusetts' declining wait list for subsidized childcare, I find that administrative burdens were…
Descriptors: Child Care, Program Administration, Access to Education, State Agencies