Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 453-464

  Torquati, Julia C ^a   Raikes, Helen H ^a   Huddleston Casas, Catherine A ^a   Bovaird, James A ^a   Harris, Beatrice A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Business Administration and Division of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care quality; Low income children; Parent perceptions; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052302553     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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