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Working Paper

A Test of Alternative Child Care Expense Capping in the Supplemental Poverty Measure

April 19, 2024

This paper explores implementation of a recommended change to capping child care expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) for key groups of parents.

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Working Paper

The Value Added of a Multidimensional Deprivation Index

July 13, 2021

The value of a multidimensional deprivation index over and above income poverty measures is explored.

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Working Paper

Child Care Subsidies and the Labor Force Outcomes for Working Married Mothers

June 29, 2021

Using Census data and administrative records, this study finds that child care subsidies improve labor force outcomes for working married mothers.

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Working Paper

Using Administrative Records to Evaluate Child Care Expense Reporting

April 11, 2019

In this poster, we link self-reported child care expenses in the CPS ASEC to CCDF child care subsidy administrative records to see how closely they align.

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Working Paper

Child Care Cost Estimates in SIPP and CPS ASEC

July 2018

This paper compares child care cost estimates in SIPP and CPS ASEC.

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Working Paper

Father-Provided Child Care among Married Couples

September 2015

This paper looks at the economic shock of job loss among fathers on the provision of father-provided child care among married couple with an employed wife.

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Working Paper

Continuity or Change in Father Provided Child Care

April 13, 2013

The changing role of fatherhood are all associated with the use of father provided child care while the mother is at work.

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Working Paper

Demand for Child Care and the Distribution of Child Care Facilities

2013

Data from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 Economic Census looks at the number of facilities per 1,000 children under age five in the United States.

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Working Paper

New CPS's ASEC Supplement Questions use in Census Bureau Tax Model

2011

Current Population Survey’s (CPS) Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) supplement added new questions to aid in developing Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)

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Working Paper

Child Care Choices, Family Income and Mother’s Employment

April 02, 2011

The task of selecting a child care arrangement often involves a number of factors such as employment demands, family changes, and the well being of the child.

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Working Paper

Presentation: Who's in Head Start? Estimating Head Start Enrollment

April 2011

This study builds off of previous work that attempts to model the number of children enrolled in Head Start using the ACS and the CPS.

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Working Paper

Who's in Head Start? Estimating Head Start Enrollment

April 2011

This study builds off of previous work that attempts to model the number of children enrolled in Head Start using the ACS and the CPS.

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Working Paper

Child Care Costs in the Current Population Survey’s ASEC

January 2011

This paper assesses child care cost estimates from the 2010 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

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Working Paper

Child Well Being and Type of Care

August 11, 2009

This poster is an exploratory analysis of the relationship between various child care arrangements and selected measures of child well-being.

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Working Paper

Who’s Minding the Kids in the Summer? Child Care Arrangements: 2006

May 2009

This poster examines patterns in child care usage during the summer months for children of employed mothers.

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Working Paper

Child Care Establishment Types: 2002

November 06, 2007

Presentation on the types of child care establishments.

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Working Paper

Child Care Constraints Among America’s Families

2007

Examines employed and non-employed mothers reporting of child care constraints: limited hours, provider change, waiting lists, and other child care problems.

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Working Paper

State Estimates of Child Care Establishments: 1977 - 1997

August 16, 2001

This poster session presents data on all state child care establishments that have filed Federal Income tax forms.

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Working Paper

Measuring the Impact of Child Care Expenses on Poverty

March 29, 2001

This paper compares the effect of using different methods of estimating child care expenses on poverty rates under the new, experimental poverty measure.

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Working Paper

Timing of First Births: 1930-34 to 1990-94

May 1998

The purposes of this research is to examine the trend in the marital status of women at the time of their first birth.

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Working Paper

Poverty, Family Structure, and Child Well-Being

April 1998

This paper assesses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) concerning child well-being.

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Working Paper

Child Well-Being Indicators From the SIPP

April 1998

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), collected in the Fall of 1994, provides analysis of child well-being in four areas.

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Working Paper

Co-resident Grandparents and Their Grandchildren

March 1998

This paper estimates how many grandparents maintain households for their grandchildren and how these numbers have changed since 1990.

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Working Paper

Trends in Marital Status of U.S. Women at First Birth: 1930 to 1994

March 1998

This paper reports on the trend of premarital childbearing amoung U.S. women.

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Working Paper

State Estimates of Organized Child Care Facilities

March 1998

This paper presents data on the characteristics of child care businesses for individual states.

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Working Paper

Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

August 07, 1996

This paper examines various methods of accounting for work related expenses (including child care expenses) in a new measure of poverty.

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Working Paper

Changing Social Security Benefits to Reflect Child Care Years

January 29, 1994

This paper estimates the effects of child care proposals for women categoried by economic and demographic characteristics.

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Working Paper

Where's Papa? Fathers' Role in Child Care

1993

This report will examine the role that the father played as a child care provider during the recent economic recession.

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Working Paper

Childcare Effects on Social Security Benefits (91 ARC)

June 1990

Time out of the labor force can reduce substantially the size of the caregiver's resultant social security and pension benefits in old age.

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Working Paper

Effect of Child Care Cost on Married Women's Labor Force Participation

July 1989

In this paper we explicitly consider the role child care costs play in the decision of women with young children to participate in the labor market.

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