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Download full textPolicy Analysis for California Education, Berkeley, CA. – 2000
This report details a study that sought to answer whether welfare reform was meeting its goals of reducing mothers' dependency and boosting children's futures, and whether these reforms were having discernable effects on young children. During the second half of 1998, the study randomly selected 948 single mothers with young children from 5…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Day Care, Day Care Effects, Early Childhood Education
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Direct linkLoeb, Susanna; Fuller, Bruce; Kagan, Sharon Lynn; Carrol, Bidemi – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
As welfare-to-work reforms increase women's labor market attachment, the lives of their young children are likely to change. This note draws on a random-assignment experiment in Connecticut to ask whether mothers' rising employment levels and program participation are associated with changes in young children's early learning and cognitive growth.…
Descriptors: Family Income, Family Environment, Young Children, Mothers
