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Title:

Investing in children : work, education, and social policy in two rich countries / Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, and Jenny Chesters, editors.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

vi, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Children--Government policy--Australia.
Children--Government policy--United States.
Children--Australia--Economic conditions.
Children--United States--Economic conditions.
Australia--Social policy.
United States--Social policy.
Child development--Australia.
Child development--United States.

Other Authors:

Kalil, Ariel.
Haskins, Ron.
Chesters, Jenny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Poverty, intergenerational mobility, and young adult educational attainment / Patrick Wightman and Sheldon Danzinger. Family joblessness and child well-being in Australia / Matthew Gray and Jennifer Baxter -- The way families work : jobs, hours, income, and children's well-being / Lyndall Strazdins ... [et al.] -- The impact of child care subsidies on the quality of care that two-year-old children receive / Anna Johnson and Rebecca Ryan -- Early childhood development and school readiness / Frank Oberklaid, Sharon Goldfield, and Tim Moore -- Economic inequality and children's educational attainment / Mary E. Campbell, Robert Haveman, and Barbara Wolfe -- Pathways of social disadvantage from adolescence into adulthood / Kathleen Mullan Harris and Hedwig Lee -- Poverty, intergenerational mobility, and young adult educational attainment / Patrick Wightman and Sheldon Danzinger.

Summary:

"Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies the two nations have designed to boost human capital development"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0815722028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815722021 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)772110791

LCCN:

2012006594

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)