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General Information
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| Evaluator(s) |
Policy Analysis for California Education (UC Berkeley)
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| Investigator(s) |
Diane Hirshberg
(University of California at Berkeley)
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| Domain |
Income Security/TANF
Child/Family
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| Status |
Operational with Findings
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| Duration |
Mar 1999 - Apr 2003
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| Type |
Research and/or Program Evaluation
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| Program/Policy Description |
This project looks at the child care choices of low-income parents and CalWORKS participants as well as the constraints on their choices. It also continues to fill in the gaps in data on the supply and demand for child care, and is attempting to develop better methods for understanding the changing need for child care.
Goals:
1. To measure child-care services currently available in California and provide updated supply-and-demand maps for all counties.
2. To better understand parents' use of child-care subsidies and their experiences interacting with subsidy programs.
3. To analyze the child-care choices that parents make, looking at variables such as family language, ethnicity, geography, licensed versus license-exempt providers, and participation in CalWORKS versus the APP subsidy program.
4. To develop several ways of understanding the concept of unmet need for child care.
The project has three main components:
1. Child-care supply
2. Child-Care Subsidies
3. Parental Choices
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| Notes |
Project website: http://pace.berkeley.edu/pace_child_careplanning.html
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| Last Updated |
00/00/00
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| Type of Summary |
Unreviewed
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| Contact(s) |
Diane Hirshberg (not reported)
University of California at Berkeley
3653 Tolman Hall
(T) (510)642-7223
(F) not reported
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| Submitter(s) |
Research Forum Staff (info@researchforum.org)
National Center for Children In Poverty
215 West 125th St, 3rd Fl
(T) (646)284-9600
(F) not reported
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Populations Studied
| Target Population |
Recipients/participants/clients
Former recipients ("leavers")
Child care providers
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| Subgroups Analyzed |
Single parent families
Two-parent families
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| Sample Size and Unit |
5 Focus groups: Child Care Providers;
Former and present CalWORKs recipients (n=1974);
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Sites Studied
Alameda, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Orange, Kern counties, CA
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