Kathleen McCartney explains how tests of child care policy provide convincing evidence about how child care assistance affects patterns of child care use. Kathleen McCartney, one of the principal investigators of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Child Care and Youth Development, shares the study's conclusions about early childhood development. Child care policies have been a relatively understudied element of experimental welfare and employment studies. Yet, the tests of child care policy provide a source of convincing evidence about whether or not, and how, child care assistance, for paid or regulated care, can affect patterns of child care use, including subsidy use and reported problems with child care.
