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Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, …

Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child
Care Research Network (NICHD SECCYD), the authors examined whether interactions …

OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the
United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has …

Early care and education (ECE) enables parental employment and provides a context for child
development. Theory suggests that lower child care costs, through subsidized care or the …

Nationally, 15% of children younger than 5 years regularly attend more than 1 child‐care
arrangement. An association between arrangement multiplicity and children’s behavior …

Previous work has shown that mothers’ employment is associated with increases in children’s
body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight for height. Nonstandard work (working …

This study examined the use of multiple, concurrent, nonparental child‐care arrangements
among children under 5 with employed mothers in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and …

With increasing maternal labor force participation and the work requirements mandated by
welfare reform, the need for child care for young children has grown in recent years. Currently…

Child care arrangements change as children age; in general, hours in home-based child
care decrease as hours in center-based settings increase. This sequence of child care type …

Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's cognitive and behavioral
outcomes. However, it is unclear to what degree associations between neighborhood …