Ellen Eliason Kisker
Biographic Data
| ID | 826232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Eliason Kisker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen Eliason |
| FAMILY NAME | Kisker |
| SIGNATURE | KISKER E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mathematica Policy Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The changing portrait of center-based preschool teachers: 1990 And 2012
The changing landscape of publicly-funded center-based child care: 1990 And 2012
Involvement in Early Head Start home visiting services: Demographic predictors and relations to child and parent outcomes
The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their Parents: Lessons for Policy and Programs
Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs. Interviews with primary caregivers, child assessments, and observations of parent-child interactions were completed when children were 3 years old. Caregivers were diverse in race-ethnicity, language, and other characteristics. Regression-adjusted impact …
Child Care Quality Matters: How Conclusions May Vary With Context
Three studies examined associations between early child care and child outcomes among families different from those in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network study. Results suggest that quality is an important influence on children's development and may be an important moderator of the amount of time in care. Thus, the generalizability of the NICHD findings may hinge on the context i…
Understanding implementation in Early Head Start programs: Implications for policy and practice
The primary goal of the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project is to assess program implementation and the quality of key child development services in the study's 17 research programs. The evaluation team developed rating scales based on the Head Start Program Performance Standards and a process for rating key program elements, then synthesized a large amount of information about program implementation and quality into a conci…
Arranging Child Care
Nonexperimental Designs and Program Evaluation
Child Care Utilization by Disadvantaged Teenage Mothers
This paper presents findings from a survey of child care use by teenage parent Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients in three low‐income metropolitan areas. The teenage mothers surveyed were participants and control group members in demonstration programs that provided access to a range of services similar to those being implemented under the Family Support Act of 1988—employment training, education, and supportive services including…
Perils of single life and benefits of marriage
It has long been observed that married persons experience more favorable mortality than unmarried persons. Hypotheses about possible explanations for mortality differentials by marital status fall into three general categories: (1) hypotheses regarding errors in the data, (2) hypotheses related to the selection of persons into and out of marital states, and (3) hypotheses regarding environmental and behavioral factors associated with various mari…
Mortality Crossovers: Reality or Bad Data
It has been argued in the literature that the observed mortality crossover among older black Americans relative to the white population is a result of 'differential early mortality which selects the least robust persons from the disadvantaged population at relatively earlier ages so that, at advanced ages, the disadvantaged population has proportionately more robust persons' (Kenneth G. Manton). The authors examine the plausibility of the observe…
The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their Parents: Lessons for Policy and Programs
Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs. Interviews with primary caregivers, child assessments, and observations of parent-child interactions were completed when children were 3 years old. Caregivers were diverse in race-ethnicity, language, and other characteristics. Regression-adjusted impact …
Mortality Crossovers: Reality or Bad Data
It has been argued in the literature that the observed mortality crossover among older black Americans relative to the white population is a result of 'differential early mortality which selects the least robust persons from the disadvantaged population at relatively earlier ages so that, at advanced ages, the disadvantaged population has proportionately more robust persons' (Kenneth G. Manton). The authors examine the plausibility of the observe…
Involvement in Early Head Start home visiting services: Demographic predictors and relations to child and parent outcomes
Arranging Child Care
The changing landscape of publicly-funded center-based child care: 1990 And 2012
Understanding implementation in Early Head Start programs: Implications for policy and practice
The primary goal of the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project is to assess program implementation and the quality of key child development services in the study's 17 research programs. The evaluation team developed rating scales based on the Head Start Program Performance Standards and a process for rating key program elements, then synthesized a large amount of information about program implementation and quality into a conci…
Child Care Utilization by Disadvantaged Teenage Mothers
This paper presents findings from a survey of child care use by teenage parent Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients in three low‐income metropolitan areas. The teenage mothers surveyed were participants and control group members in demonstration programs that provided access to a range of services similar to those being implemented under the Family Support Act of 1988—employment training, education, and supportive services including…
The changing portrait of center-based preschool teachers: 1990 And 2012
Nonexperimental Designs and Program Evaluation
Perils of single life and benefits of marriage
It has long been observed that married persons experience more favorable mortality than unmarried persons. Hypotheses about possible explanations for mortality differentials by marital status fall into three general categories: (1) hypotheses regarding errors in the data, (2) hypotheses related to the selection of persons into and out of marital states, and (3) hypotheses regarding environmental and behavioral factors associated with various mari…
Mortality Crossovers: Reality or Bad Data
It has been argued in the literature that the observed mortality crossover among older black Americans relative to the white population is a result of 'differential early mortality which selects the least robust persons from the disadvantaged population at relatively earlier ages so that, at advanced ages, the disadvantaged population has proportionately more robust persons' (Kenneth G. Manton). The authors examine the plausibility of the observe…
Perils of single life and benefits of marriage
It has long been observed that married persons experience more favorable mortality than unmarried persons. Hypotheses about possible explanations for mortality differentials by marital status fall into three general categories: (1) hypotheses regarding errors in the data, (2) hypotheses related to the selection of persons into and out of marital states, and (3) hypotheses regarding environmental and behavioral factors associated with various mari…
Child Care Utilization by Disadvantaged Teenage Mothers
This paper presents findings from a survey of child care use by teenage parent Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients in three low‐income metropolitan areas. The teenage mothers surveyed were participants and control group members in demonstration programs that provided access to a range of services similar to those being implemented under the Family Support Act of 1988—employment training, education, and supportive services including…
Arranging Child Care
Nonexperimental Designs and Program Evaluation
Understanding implementation in Early Head Start programs: Implications for policy and practice
The primary goal of the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project is to assess program implementation and the quality of key child development services in the study's 17 research programs. The evaluation team developed rating scales based on the Head Start Program Performance Standards and a process for rating key program elements, then synthesized a large amount of information about program implementation and quality into a conci…
Child Care Quality Matters: How Conclusions May Vary With Context
Three studies examined associations between early child care and child outcomes among families different from those in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network study. Results suggest that quality is an important influence on children's development and may be an important moderator of the amount of time in care. Thus, the generalizability of the NICHD findings may hinge on the context i…
The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their Parents: Lessons for Policy and Programs
Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs. Interviews with primary caregivers, child assessments, and observations of parent-child interactions were completed when children were 3 years old. Caregivers were diverse in race-ethnicity, language, and other characteristics. Regression-adjusted impact …
Involvement in Early Head Start home visiting services: Demographic predictors and relations to child and parent outcomes
The changing landscape of publicly-funded center-based child care: 1990 And 2012
The changing portrait of center-based preschool teachers: 1990 And 2012
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Head start (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Child care (3 works) · Demography (3 works)