Scott W Allard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3816610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott W Allard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott W |
| FAMILY NAME | Allard |
| SIGNATURE | ALLARD S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4346-2649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Minimum wage increases and SNAP participation: Evidence from Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance
A large and contested body of research examines how minimum wage laws affect employment and earnings for different groups of workers and industries. Far less studied are the important but ambiguous expectations about minimum wage effects on participation in safety net programs. Different scenarios of minimum wage effects on employment and earnings could produce positive, negative, or null effects on participation in means-tested programs. This st…
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers
Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets
Rising poverty in suburbs has led to increased interest in how well suburban safety nets function. Apart from public assistance programs, community-based nonprofit health and human service organizations play a central role in suburban efforts to address racial and economic inequalities. Understanding how nonprofit services are distributed across the suburban and urban landscape, therefore, is critical to assessing how communities may be able to a…
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality
The Initial Nonprofit Exposure and Response to Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance
Nearly 40 local governments adopted minimum wage rates higher than the federal minimum in the last decade. Research on such laws focuses on employment and price adjustments of for-profit firms. Higher minimum wage rates, however, may pose unique challenges to community-based nonprofit organizations, many of which serve vulnerable communities and have limited ability to modify business practices. We use survey and in-depth interview data with more…
The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens
In recent years, scholarship of the American welfare state has given greater attention to the public-private partnerships that powerfully shape the provision of social assistance programs and safety net benefits. Jacob S. Hacker’s work on the employer-based private welfare state (The Divided Welfare State, 2002), Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky’s book on the evolution of nonprofit service organizations (Nonprofits for Hire, 1993), and Joe…
Employer Responses to a City-Level Minimum Wage Mandate: Early Evidence from Seattle
A growing number of cities and counties have recently raised their minimum wages. How employers respond to these mandates provides insight into the impact such policies might have on workers and local labor market. Drawing on two survey waves tracking initial responses to Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance by 439 employers with low-wage workers, we show how employers adjusted to higher wages. Most commonly, firms raised prices (56% reported thi…
Nonprofits and Political Activity: A Joint Consideration of the Political Activities, Programs, and Organizational Characteristics of Social Service Nonprofits
Nonprofit social service agencies are essential to the safety net assisting Americans with low incomes. These agencies also fulfill important civic functions through political activities such as policy advocacy and public education. To learn more about nonprofit political behavior, we analyze unique survey data drawn from 1,205 faith-based and secular nonprofit social service agencies across the United States. We distinguish between six different…
State Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities
Growing interest in the use of administrative data to answer questions around program implementation and effectiveness has led to greater discussion of how government agencies can develop the necessary internal data infrastructure, analytic capacity, and office culture. However, there is a need for more systematic research into how states find different pathways and strategies to build administrative data capacity. Drawing on interviews with almo…
(Re)Defining Access to Latino Immigrant-Serving Organizations: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC
Objective: Local social-service organizations can shape the process of immigrant integration, but their ability to do so partially hinges on whether immigrants can reasonably access services. In addition to distance or proximity, key features of an organization (e.g., capacity, multilingual staff) also shape whether a social-service program is accessible. This study explores the spatial relationship between Latino immigrant neighborhoods and orga…
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations
The recent economic recession and a sluggish recovery have made conditions especially precarious for the most disadvantaged members of the urban poor population-those with criminal records, health conditions, undocumented status, or unstable housing. We argue that the fewer the resources to which people have access, the more their circumstances will depend on the organizations in which they participate, the systems in which these organizations op…
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford Schram
Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants. Edited by David Hollenbach
Driven from Home is the product of a conference organized by Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International Justice. The twelve essays collected here function, as David Hollenbach notes in the introduction, as a response to a 2008 Foreign Affairs article by High Commissioner António Guterres. In that article, Guterres called for a ‘new humanitarian-protection compact’ (2008: 99). This new compact is necessitated by fundamental changes…
Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poor—job training, adult education, child care, emergency assistance, mental health care, and other social services. This book examines the current system in the United States and the crucial role that geography plays i…
Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, by Ron Haskins
Since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), commonly referred to as welfare reform, scholars have examined its impact on employment among low-income women and on state policy choices. Comparatively less work has addressed the politics and process that led to passage of this landmark social welfare legislation. Part policy history, part legislative politics and strategy, part memoir, a…
The Changing Face of Welfare during the Bush Administration
Most scholars of American social policy do not associate significant change in welfare policy with the presidential administration of George W. Bush. No major welfare policy initiatives were passed during the first term of the Bush presidency. Welfare cash assistance caseloads have remained fairly constant since 2001. Block grant funding for state welfare programs has remained at $16.5 billion annually. The poverty rate has increased from 11.3 pe…
A Starting Foul in the Study of the Race to the Bottom: A Comment on “Measuring State Tanf Policy Variations and Change After Reform”
Making Tradeoffs in Federal Block Grant Programs: Understanding the Interplay Between SSBG and Tanf
Welfare reform gave states the option of transferring up to 10 percent of their annual federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) award to the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Drawing on administrative data, we consider the impact of TANF transfers on SSBG. We find evidence suggesting that more innovative states, states that experienced larger TANF caseload declines, and states that transferred a higher percentage of TANF funds to …
Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Mothers’ Aid Programs in the United States
Do states compete in providing (or not providing) welfare services? Do competitive pressures shape state welfare program adoption? Even though interstate competition is viewed by some to be a ubiquitous feature of the American federal system and welfare state, there is mixed evidence as to whether such pressures have influenced cash assistance policy in the United States. Although evidence exists of competitive pressures in contemporary welfare p…
Proximity to service providers and service utilization among welfare recipients: The interaction of place and race
Currently, welfare programs coordinate a range of services to support work among welfare recipients and help them overcome barriers to employment. This paper considers the relationship between spatial proximity to and utilization of support services among welfare recipients. Accessibility of mental health and substance abuse service providers among welfare recipients is examined in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area and the relationship b…
Managing intensive student consulting capstone projects: The Maxwell school experience
Access to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services among Women Receiving Welfare in Detroit
Provision of social services that can help welfare recipients overcome barriers to employment has become an important challenge for welfare-to-work programs, yet there is relatively little understanding of how spatial proximity to social services varies across welfare recipients in urban America. In this study, the authors examine the spatial proximity of welfare recipients in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area to mental health and substa…
The Geography of Need: Spatial Distribution of Barriers to Employment in Metropolitan Detroit
Although several studies examine the barriers to employment that limit the employability of welfare recipients, they have not analyzed how these barriers might be different for residents of central cities than for residents in surrounding suburban areas. We consider how the prevalence of barriers to employment varies by race and place in metropolitan Detroit. We find that the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence bar…
Proximity to service providers and service utilization among welfare recipients: The interaction of place and race
Currently, welfare programs coordinate a range of services to support work among welfare recipients and help them overcome barriers to employment. This paper considers the relationship between spatial proximity to and utilization of support services among welfare recipients. Accessibility of mental health and substance abuse service providers among welfare recipients is examined in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area and the relationship b…
Welfare Magnets: Myth or Reality
Since the passage of federal welfare reform in late 1996, 15 states have passed welfare residency requirements that restrict cash assistance to new migrants, an indication that welfare-induced migration concerns state policy-makers. Models of state welfare policy-making assume that states compete in a "race-to-the-bottom" over the generosity of their welfare policies, where neighboring states continuously reduce benefit levels in reaction to one …
Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations
The recent economic recession and a sluggish recovery have made conditions especially precarious for the most disadvantaged members of the urban poor population-those with criminal records, health conditions, undocumented status, or unstable housing. We argue that the fewer the resources to which people have access, the more their circumstances will depend on the organizations in which they participate, the systems in which these organizations op…
The Changing Face of Welfare during the Bush Administration
Most scholars of American social policy do not associate significant change in welfare policy with the presidential administration of George W. Bush. No major welfare policy initiatives were passed during the first term of the Bush presidency. Welfare cash assistance caseloads have remained fairly constant since 2001. Block grant funding for state welfare programs has remained at $16.5 billion annually. The poverty rate has increased from 11.3 pe…
Access to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services among Women Receiving Welfare in Detroit
Provision of social services that can help welfare recipients overcome barriers to employment has become an important challenge for welfare-to-work programs, yet there is relatively little understanding of how spatial proximity to social services varies across welfare recipients in urban America. In this study, the authors examine the spatial proximity of welfare recipients in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area to mental health and substa…
Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Mothers’ Aid Programs in the United States
Do states compete in providing (or not providing) welfare services? Do competitive pressures shape state welfare program adoption? Even though interstate competition is viewed by some to be a ubiquitous feature of the American federal system and welfare state, there is mixed evidence as to whether such pressures have influenced cash assistance policy in the United States. Although evidence exists of competitive pressures in contemporary welfare p…
Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures
[New York] city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany. I've never known an up-State Republican who didn't want to run things here. . . . We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've g…
(Re)Defining Access to Latino Immigrant-Serving Organizations: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC
Objective: Local social-service organizations can shape the process of immigrant integration, but their ability to do so partially hinges on whether immigrants can reasonably access services. In addition to distance or proximity, key features of an organization (e.g., capacity, multilingual staff) also shape whether a social-service program is accessible. This study explores the spatial relationship between Latino immigrant neighborhoods and orga…
Making Tradeoffs in Federal Block Grant Programs: Understanding the Interplay Between SSBG and Tanf
Welfare reform gave states the option of transferring up to 10 percent of their annual federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) award to the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Drawing on administrative data, we consider the impact of TANF transfers on SSBG. We find evidence suggesting that more innovative states, states that experienced larger TANF caseload declines, and states that transferred a higher percentage of TANF funds to …
The Geography of Need: Spatial Distribution of Barriers to Employment in Metropolitan Detroit
Although several studies examine the barriers to employment that limit the employability of welfare recipients, they have not analyzed how these barriers might be different for residents of central cities than for residents in surrounding suburban areas. We consider how the prevalence of barriers to employment varies by race and place in metropolitan Detroit. We find that the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence bar…
Revisiting Shapiro: Welfare Magnets and State Residency Requirements in the 1990s
Journal Article Revisiting Shapiro: Welfare Magnets and State Residency Requirements in the 1990s Get access Scott W. Allard Scott W. Allard University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 28, Issue 3, Summer 1998, Pages 45–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029984 Published: 01 January 1998
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
The Urban Geography of Welfare Reform: Spatial Patterns of Caseload Dynamics in Detroit
Objective . To assess how the characteristics of welfare recipients have varied geographically in the Detroit metropolitan area since the passage of welfare reform in 1996 and how spatial proximity to job opportunities is related to work rates among welfare recipients. Methods . Using administrative data on welfare receipt in the Detroit metropolitan area and data from two employer surveys in Detroit, I examine changes in the welfare caseload bet…
Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets
Rising poverty in suburbs has led to increased interest in how well suburban safety nets function. Apart from public assistance programs, community-based nonprofit health and human service organizations play a central role in suburban efforts to address racial and economic inequalities. Understanding how nonprofit services are distributed across the suburban and urban landscape, therefore, is critical to assessing how communities may be able to a…
Employer Responses to a City-Level Minimum Wage Mandate: Early Evidence from Seattle
A growing number of cities and counties have recently raised their minimum wages. How employers respond to these mandates provides insight into the impact such policies might have on workers and local labor market. Drawing on two survey waves tracking initial responses to Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance by 439 employers with low-wage workers, we show how employers adjusted to higher wages. Most commonly, firms raised prices (56% reported thi…
Managing intensive student consulting capstone projects: The Maxwell school experience
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures
[New York] city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany. I've never known an up-State Republican who didn't want to run things here. . . . We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've g…
Revisiting Shapiro: Welfare Magnets and State Residency Requirements in the 1990s
Journal Article Revisiting Shapiro: Welfare Magnets and State Residency Requirements in the 1990s Get access Scott W. Allard Scott W. Allard University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 28, Issue 3, Summer 1998, Pages 45–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029984 Published: 01 January 1998
Welfare Magnets: Myth or Reality
Since the passage of federal welfare reform in late 1996, 15 states have passed welfare residency requirements that restrict cash assistance to new migrants, an indication that welfare-induced migration concerns state policy-makers. Models of state welfare policy-making assume that states compete in a "race-to-the-bottom" over the generosity of their welfare policies, where neighboring states continuously reduce benefit levels in reaction to one …
The Urban Geography of Welfare Reform: Spatial Patterns of Caseload Dynamics in Detroit
Objective . To assess how the characteristics of welfare recipients have varied geographically in the Detroit metropolitan area since the passage of welfare reform in 1996 and how spatial proximity to job opportunities is related to work rates among welfare recipients. Methods . Using administrative data on welfare receipt in the Detroit metropolitan area and data from two employer surveys in Detroit, I examine changes in the welfare caseload bet…
Proximity to service providers and service utilization among welfare recipients: The interaction of place and race
Currently, welfare programs coordinate a range of services to support work among welfare recipients and help them overcome barriers to employment. This paper considers the relationship between spatial proximity to and utilization of support services among welfare recipients. Accessibility of mental health and substance abuse service providers among welfare recipients is examined in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area and the relationship b…
Managing intensive student consulting capstone projects: The Maxwell school experience
Access to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services among Women Receiving Welfare in Detroit
Provision of social services that can help welfare recipients overcome barriers to employment has become an important challenge for welfare-to-work programs, yet there is relatively little understanding of how spatial proximity to social services varies across welfare recipients in urban America. In this study, the authors examine the spatial proximity of welfare recipients in the three-county Detroit metropolitan area to mental health and substa…
The Geography of Need: Spatial Distribution of Barriers to Employment in Metropolitan Detroit
Although several studies examine the barriers to employment that limit the employability of welfare recipients, they have not analyzed how these barriers might be different for residents of central cities than for residents in surrounding suburban areas. We consider how the prevalence of barriers to employment varies by race and place in metropolitan Detroit. We find that the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence bar…
Making Tradeoffs in Federal Block Grant Programs: Understanding the Interplay Between SSBG and Tanf
Welfare reform gave states the option of transferring up to 10 percent of their annual federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) award to the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Drawing on administrative data, we consider the impact of TANF transfers on SSBG. We find evidence suggesting that more innovative states, states that experienced larger TANF caseload declines, and states that transferred a higher percentage of TANF funds to …
Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Mothers’ Aid Programs in the United States
Do states compete in providing (or not providing) welfare services? Do competitive pressures shape state welfare program adoption? Even though interstate competition is viewed by some to be a ubiquitous feature of the American federal system and welfare state, there is mixed evidence as to whether such pressures have influenced cash assistance policy in the United States. Although evidence exists of competitive pressures in contemporary welfare p…
A Starting Foul in the Study of the Race to the Bottom: A Comment on “Measuring State Tanf Policy Variations and Change After Reform”
Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, by Ron Haskins
Since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), commonly referred to as welfare reform, scholars have examined its impact on employment among low-income women and on state policy choices. Comparatively less work has addressed the politics and process that led to passage of this landmark social welfare legislation. Part policy history, part legislative politics and strategy, part memoir, a…
The Changing Face of Welfare during the Bush Administration
Most scholars of American social policy do not associate significant change in welfare policy with the presidential administration of George W. Bush. No major welfare policy initiatives were passed during the first term of the Bush presidency. Welfare cash assistance caseloads have remained fairly constant since 2001. Block grant funding for state welfare programs has remained at $16.5 billion annually. The poverty rate has increased from 11.3 pe…
Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poor—job training, adult education, child care, emergency assistance, mental health care, and other social services. This book examines the current system in the United States and the crucial role that geography plays i…
Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants. Edited by David Hollenbach
Driven from Home is the product of a conference organized by Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International Justice. The twelve essays collected here function, as David Hollenbach notes in the introduction, as a response to a 2008 Foreign Affairs article by High Commissioner António Guterres. In that article, Guterres called for a ‘new humanitarian-protection compact’ (2008: 99). This new compact is necessitated by fundamental changes…
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford Schram
Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations
The recent economic recession and a sluggish recovery have made conditions especially precarious for the most disadvantaged members of the urban poor population-those with criminal records, health conditions, undocumented status, or unstable housing. We argue that the fewer the resources to which people have access, the more their circumstances will depend on the organizations in which they participate, the systems in which these organizations op…
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
(Re)Defining Access to Latino Immigrant-Serving Organizations: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC
Objective: Local social-service organizations can shape the process of immigrant integration, but their ability to do so partially hinges on whether immigrants can reasonably access services. In addition to distance or proximity, key features of an organization (e.g., capacity, multilingual staff) also shape whether a social-service program is accessible. This study explores the spatial relationship between Latino immigrant neighborhoods and orga…
Nonprofits and Political Activity: A Joint Consideration of the Political Activities, Programs, and Organizational Characteristics of Social Service Nonprofits
Nonprofit social service agencies are essential to the safety net assisting Americans with low incomes. These agencies also fulfill important civic functions through political activities such as policy advocacy and public education. To learn more about nonprofit political behavior, we analyze unique survey data drawn from 1,205 faith-based and secular nonprofit social service agencies across the United States. We distinguish between six different…
State Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities
Growing interest in the use of administrative data to answer questions around program implementation and effectiveness has led to greater discussion of how government agencies can develop the necessary internal data infrastructure, analytic capacity, and office culture. However, there is a need for more systematic research into how states find different pathways and strategies to build administrative data capacity. Drawing on interviews with almo…
The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens
In recent years, scholarship of the American welfare state has given greater attention to the public-private partnerships that powerfully shape the provision of social assistance programs and safety net benefits. Jacob S. Hacker’s work on the employer-based private welfare state (The Divided Welfare State, 2002), Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky’s book on the evolution of nonprofit service organizations (Nonprofits for Hire, 1993), and Joe…
Employer Responses to a City-Level Minimum Wage Mandate: Early Evidence from Seattle
A growing number of cities and counties have recently raised their minimum wages. How employers respond to these mandates provides insight into the impact such policies might have on workers and local labor market. Drawing on two survey waves tracking initial responses to Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance by 439 employers with low-wage workers, we show how employers adjusted to higher wages. Most commonly, firms raised prices (56% reported thi…
The Initial Nonprofit Exposure and Response to Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance
Nearly 40 local governments adopted minimum wage rates higher than the federal minimum in the last decade. Research on such laws focuses on employment and price adjustments of for-profit firms. Higher minimum wage rates, however, may pose unique challenges to community-based nonprofit organizations, many of which serve vulnerable communities and have limited ability to modify business practices. We use survey and in-depth interview data with more…
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
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