Child Care: Child Care Subsidies Increase Likelihood That Low-Income Mothers Will Work

1994 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Care Child ◽  
Low Income Mothers

Barriers to subsidies: why low-income families do not use child care subsidies

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne B Shlay ◽  
Marsha Weinraub ◽  
Michelle Harmon ◽  
Henry Tran
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Low Income Families

The Role of Child-Care Subsidies in the Lives of Low-Income Children

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna D. Johnson ◽  
Rebecca M. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Low Income Children

scholarly journals Efficient Child Care Subsidies

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Ho ◽  
Nicola Pavoni
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Optimal Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
Marginal Tax Rates ◽  
Welfare Problem ◽  
Care Costs

We study the design of child care subsidies in an optimal welfare problem with heterogeneous private market productivities. The optimal subsidy schedule is qualitatively similar to the existing US scheme. Efficiency mandates a subsidy on formal child care costs, with higher subsidies paid to lower income earners and a kink as a function of child care expenditure. Marginal labor income tax rates are set lower than the labor wedges, with the potential to generate negative marginal tax rates. We calibrate our simple model to features of the US labor market and focus on single mothers with children aged below 6. The optimal program provides stronger participation but milder intensive margin incentives for low-income earners with subsidy rates starting very high and decreasing with income more steeply than those in the United States. (JEL D82, H21, H24, J13, J16, J32)

Child Care and Child Care Policy: Existing Policies, Their Effects, and Reforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 686 (1) ◽  
pp. 310-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Joseph Hotz ◽  
Matthew Wiswall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Provide Child Care ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Low Income Mothers

We analyze policies that support and affect the provision and costs of child care in the United States. These policies are motivated by at least three objectives: (1) improving the cognitive and social development of young children, (2) facilitating maternal employment, and (3) alleviating poverty. We summarize this policy landscape and the evidence on the effects they have on the development of children and parents. We provide a summary of the use and costs of nonparental child care services; and we summarize existing policies and programs that subsidize child care costs, provide child care to certain groups, and regulate various aspects of the services provided in the United States. We then review the evidence on the effects that child care policies have on these objectives. We go on to discuss the existing evidence of their effects on various outcomes. Finally, we outline three reform proposals that will both facilitate work by low-income mothers and improve the quality of child care that their children receive.

MATERNAL GRANDMOTHERS AS CHILD CARE PROVIDERS FOR RURAL, LOW-INCOME MOTHERS

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy L. Reschke ◽  
Margaret M. Manoogian ◽  
Leslie N. Richards ◽  
Susan K. Walker ◽  
Sharon B. Seiling
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Low Income Mothers

The North Side Children's Agency (B): Finances versus Mission

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anne Cohn Donnelly ◽  
Trinita Logue
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
The Government

The North Side Children's Agency (NSCA) was a twenty-three-year-old nonprofit organization founded to serve very low-income working parents who qualified for income-based government child care subsidies. In support of its mission, the NSCA operated year-round, full-day child care programs at seven different sites for children from six weeks through twelve years of age. It employed a standard nonprofit governance model with a volunteer board of directors, each of whom was assigned to one of six committees, which functioned quite independently. After years of success, in 2004 the NSCA faced a serious cash shortage and its first deficit in a decade. Board members were not only surprised by the crisis but also unprepared to deal with the short- and long-term issues it raised. Board members required strong leadership to organize them to identify the causes of the crisis and think strategically about the organization's response.Anticipate how changes in the external environment and government policy can have an impact on a nonprofit's operations and mission Identify ways to organize governance to maximize effectiveness and minimize blind spots Use strategic thinking to identify causes of a crisis and potentially redefine a nonprofit's mission Identify the lack of control over funding and the overreliance on one funding source as primary pitfalls of nonprofits that deliver services paid for by the government>

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