Child care subsidy patterns: Are exits related to economic setbacks or economic successes?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 346-355

  Ha, Yoonsook ^a   Meyer, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care subsidies; Discrete time event history regression model; Exit outcomes; Single mother families; TANF

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849093389     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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