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The Center for Children
and Families

Teachers College,
Columbia University
  Box 226
  525 West 120th St.
  New York, NY 10027

 ccf.tc.columbia.edu
Phone: 212-678-8255
Fax: 212-678-3160

Email Sharon L. Kagan:

sharon.kagan@
columbia.edu


sharon.kagan@
yale.edu



©2002 Teachers College, Columbia University
Growing Up in Poverty Project:
New Lives for Poor Families?
Mothers and Young Children Move through Welfare Reform
About the Project


Research papers and copies of this report are available by:

California:
Berkeley project office, 510-642-7223, or at pace.berkeley.edu.

Graduate School of Education – PACE
University of California, Berkeley 94720

New York:
The Center for Children and Family
Teachers College, Columbia University
Box 39
525 West 120th St.
New York City 10027
Website: ccf.tc.columbia.edu

Phone: 212-678-8255
Fax: 212-678-3160

Email Sharon L. Kagan:
Columbia or Yale

Connecticut:
Yale University,
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-9931.


To learn more:

Administration for Families and Children,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.acf.dhhs.gov

Center for Law and Social Policy
www.clasp.org

Child Trends Inc.
www.childtrends.org

Heritage Foundation
www.heritage.org

Hudson Institute
www.hudson.org/wpc/

Joint Center for Poverty Research
University of Chicago and Northwestern University
www.jcpr.org

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
www.mdrc.org

National Center for Children in Poverty
www.researchforum.org

Urban Institute
www.newfederalism.urban.org


Additional papers from the Growing Up in Poverty Project:

Fuller, B., Kagan, S.L, et al. (2000). Remember the Children:
Mothers Balance Work and Child Care under Welfare Reform.
Berkeley: University of California and Yale University.

Fuller, B., Caspary, G., Kagan, S.L. et al. (2001). Does maternal
employment influence poor children’s social development.
Berkeley: University of California (working paper).

Fuller, B., Chang, Y., and Suzuki, S. (2001). Child-care aid and
quality for California families. Berkeley: University of California
(PACE working paper 01-2).

Fuller, B., Kagan, S.L., Caspary, G., and Gauthier, C. (2002).
Welfare reform and child care options for low-income families,
Future of Children, 12. 97-119. David and Lucile Packard
Foundation

Fuller, B., Gascue, L., Kagan, S.L. et al. (2002). Explaining family
demand for early education: Ethnicity, social support, and
neighborhood organizations. Berkeley: University of California
(working paper).

Holloway, S., Kagan, S.L., Fuller, B., Tsou, L., and Carroll, J. (2001).
Assessing child-care quality with a telephone interview. Early
Childhood Research Quarterly, 16, 165-189.

Loeb, S., Fuller, B., Kagan, S.L., and Carrol, B. (in press). Child
development under welfare reform. In From Welfare to Child
Care: What Happens to Infants and Toddlers When Single
Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work? edited by E. Peters and
R. Hutchens. New York: Russell Sage.

Loeb, S., Fuller, B., Kagan, S.L., and Carrol, B. (2002). How welfare
reform affects the lives of preschool-age children. Berkeley:
University of California (working paper).

Mensing, J., French, D., Fuller, B., and Kagan, S.L. (2000). Child
care selection under welfare reform: How mothers balance
work requirements and parenting. Early Education and
Development, 11, 573-596.