Evaluation of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program: May 1996 - April 2000

Witte, Ann Dryden; Queralt, Magaly; Tauchen, Helen

doi:10.2139/ssrn.290143

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“…Building upon ongoing work in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Florida (Witte & Queralt, 2002;Witte, Queralt & Tauchen, 2001;Lemke, Witt & Witte, 2001;Queralt, Witte, and Griesinger, 2000;Witte, Queralt, Chipty & Grisinger, 1998), we begin by developing a model for the probability that low-income single mothers who are current or former cash assistance recipients will be in one of various statuses, depending on whether or not they are: a) working 20 or more hours per week, b) receiving cash assistance, and c) receiving a child care subsidy.…”

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Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

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Queralt²

2003

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Walsh provided invaluable guidance. They helped us to document and understand Rhode Island's child care policy changes associated with Starting RIght. Sherry Campanelli also provided us with contacts in various Rhode Island agencies in addition to DHS, such as the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education and the Department of Labor and Training (DLT), and with valuable comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this report. She worked with us to develop a time line of changes taking place during the study period. Randy Rosati worked with us to develop data requests, and he worked with us and with employees of Network Six to extract data from DHS's administrative databases. He provided numerous interpretations and guides as our work progressed. He also worked with us and with personnel at DLT to obtain quarterly earnings reports from the Unemployment Insurance database. On the policy front, we would like to thank Nancy Tikkanen for helping us to understand the Family Independence Program (FIP) and Dorothy Karolyshyn for helping us understand the nuances of child care policies and other social welfare regulations in Rhode Island. Kim Keating and Louisa Tarullo helped us to obtain Head Start data and to understand the changes in Head Start that have occurred during welfare reform. Laura Beavers provided us with valuable data from Rhode Island's Kids Count historical databases. Marie Gariepy provided us with data on public school kindergarten programs. We also wish to express our appreciation to Dr. Pia Divine from the Child Care Bureau. Finally, Sherry Campanelli, Karen Tvedt (Child Care Bureau) and Helen Tauchen (UNC Chapel Hill) provided valuable comments and suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Section: Impacts Of Eligibility Expansions and Providermentioning

confidence: 99%