Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients

Demography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 165-179

  Meyers, Marcia K ^a   Heintze, Theresa ^b   Wolf, Douglas A ^b  

^a School of Social Work   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAY CARE; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; POVERTY; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; SINGLE PERSON;

EID: 0036479504     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088369     Document Type: Article

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