Additional Publications

Day Care and Head Start

Hao, Lingxin, and Arleen Leibowitz, Public Policies, Private Support and Single Mothers' Schooling, Work, and Child Care, RAND/DRU-853-NICHD, 1994, 41 pp., no charge.

Hotz, V. Joseph, and Rebecca Kilburn, Regulating Child Care: The Effects of State Regulations on Child Care Demand and Its Cost, RAND/DRU-956, 1995, 65 pp., no charge.

Johansen, Anne S., Arleen Leibowitz, and Linda J. Waite, Parents' Demand for Child Care, RAND/DRU-741-NICHD, 1994, 41 pp., no charge.

Kilburn, M. Rebecca, and Lingxin Hao, "The Impact of Federal and State Policy Changes on Child Care in California," The New Fiscal Federalism and the Social Safety Net, James Hosek and Robert Levine, eds., RAND/CF-123-RC, 1996, 200 pp., ISBN: 0-8330-2411-6, $15.00.

Zellman, Gail L., Anne S. Johansen, and Lisa S. Meredith, Improving the Delivery of Military Child Care: An Analysis of Current Operations and New Approaches, RAND/R-4145-FMP, 1992, 83 pp., ISBN 0-8330-1242-8, $7.50.

Child Health and Insurance

Currie, Janet, Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance? RAND/DRU-1461-RC, 1996, 60 pp., no charge.

Currie, Janet, "Socio-Economic Status and Child Health: Does Public Health Insurance Narrow the Gap?" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 97, No. 4, 1995, pp. 603-620.

Currie, Janet, and Jonathan Gruber, "Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care and Child Health," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996, pp. 431-464.

Currie, Janet, and Jonathan Gruber, "Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy," American Economic Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 106-111.

Currie, Janet, and Jonathan Gruber, "Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Changes in the Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104, No. 6, December 1996, pp. 1263-1296.

Halfon, Neal, David L. Wood, R. Burciaga Valdez, Margaret Pereyra, and Naihua Duan, "Medicaid Enrollment and Health Services Access by Latino Children in Inner-City Los Angeles," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 277, No. 8, February 26, 1997, pp. 636-641.

Wood, David, Cathy Donald Sherbourne, Neal Halfon, M. Belinda Tucker, Vilma Ortiz, Julie Shea Hamlin, Naihua Duan, Rebecca M. Mazel, Mark Grabowsky, Philip Brunell, and Howard Freeman, "Factors Related to Immunization Status Among Inner-City Latino and African-American Preschoolers," Pediatrics, Vol. 96, No. 2, August 1995, pp. 295-301.

Adolescent Health

Ellickson, Phyllis L., "Helping Urban Teenagers Avoid High-Risk Behavior," Urban America: Policy Choices for Los Angeles and the Nation, James B. Steinberg, David W. Lyon, and Mary E. Vaiana, eds., RAND/MR-100-RC, 1992, pp. 105-126, ISBN: 0-8330-1281-9, $20.00.

Ellickson, Phyllis L., and Ron D. Hays, "Antecedents of Drinking Among Young Adolescents with Different Alcohol Use Histories," Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 52, No. 5, 1991, pp. 398-408 (RAND/N-3424-CHF, $4.00).

Ellickson, Phyllis L., Ron D. Hays, and Robert M. Bell, "Stepping Through the Drug Use Sequence: Longitudinal Scalogram Analysis of Initiation and Regular Use," Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 101, No 3, 1992, pp. 441-451 (RAND reprint, RP-159, no charge).

Ellickson, Phyllis L., Kimberly A. McGuigan, Virgil Adams, Robert M. Bell, and Ron D. Hays, "Teenagers and Alcohol Misuse in the United States: By Any Definition, It's a Big Problem," Addiction, Vol. 91, No. 10, 1996, pp. 1489-1503 (RAND reprint, RP-600, no charge).

Hays, Ron D., and Phyllis L. Ellickson, "Associations Between Drug Use and Deviant Behavior in Teenagers," Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1996, pp. 291-302 (RAND reprint, RP-533, no charge).

Schuster, Mark A., Robert M. Bell, and David E. Kanouse, "The Sexual Practices of Adolescent Virgins: Genital Sexual Activities of High School Students Who Have Never Had Vaginal Intercourse," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 86, No. 11, November 1996, pp. 1570-1576 (RAND reprint, RP-601, no charge).

Family and Community Interventions

Ellickson, Phyllis L., and Robert M. Bell, Prospects for Preventing Drug Use Among Young Adolescents, RAND/R-3896-CHF, 1990, 64 pp., ISBN: 0-8330-1047-6, $7.50.

Greenwood, Peter W., C. Peter Rydell, Allan F. Abrahamse, Jonathan P. Caulkins, James R. Chiesa, Karyn E. Model, and Stephen P. Klein, Three Strikes and You're Out: Estimated Benefits and Costs of California's New Mandatory-Sentencing Law, RAND/MR-509-RC, 1994, 87 pp., ISBN: 0-8330-1597-4, $13.00.

Grissmer, David W., Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Mark Berends, and Stephanie Williamson, Student Achievement and the Changing American Family, RAND/MR-488-LE, 1994, 131 pp., ISBN: 0-8330-1616-4, $15.00.

Hao, Lingxin, "Poverty, Public Assistance, and Children in Intact and Single-Mother Families," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Vol. 16, No. 2/3, 1995, pp. 181­205 (RAND reprint, RP-489, no charge).


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