TY  - JOUR
AU  - Witte,Ann
AU  - Queralt,Magaly
AU  - Witt,Robert
AU  - Griesinger,Harriet
TI  - The Policy Context and Infant and Toddler Care in the Welfare Reform Era
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8893
PY  - 2002
Y2  - April 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8893
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8893.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ann Dryden Witte
155 Ocean Lane Dr., Apt 812
Miami, FL 33149
Tel: 305/365-0834
Fax: 305/365-0896
E-Mail: awitte@wellesley.edu

Magaly Queralt
E-Mail: mqueralt@wellesley.edu

Robert Witt
E-Mail: r.witt@surrey.ac.uk
AB  - We provide descriptive evidence from Miami-Dade County (MDC), FL and from five representative areas in Massachusetts (MA) that government policies governing welfare reform, the child-care subsidy system and minimum-standards regulation have had considerable impact on the availability, price, and quality of infant and toddler care, as welfare reform progressed from 1996 to 2000.  Among our more interesting findings are the following: (1) There has been more than a doubling of the number of low-income infants and toddlers with child care subsidies in formal care in MDC, an area where cash assistance recipients are required to be active when their youngest child is three years old; and (2) Child care centers in both MA and MDC appear to be subsidizing their infant and toddler programs; this helps to explain why it has been difficult to expand the amount of infant and toddler care available.
ER  -