2012-05-24T14:06:30Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/infants.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB647.html May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012

This briefing uses existing statewide and county data to provide California early care and education quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) planners and other stakeholders with important information about some fundamentals of the proposed QRIS rating scheme that could inform California's QRIS design in advance of field-based pilot efforts.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1188.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP356.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP364.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Better child outcomes are the ultimate goal of early care and education (ECE) quality improvement (QI) efforts, but assessing these outcomes is difficult and rarely done. This study identifies five strategies for incorporating child assessments into the design, implementation, and evaluation of QI initiatives such as quality rating and improvement systems. The study assesses the merits of each strategy and offers guidance for its use.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9638.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9639.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Identifies five strategies for incorporating child assessments into the design, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives designed to raise the quality of care in early care and education settings such as quality rating and improvement systems.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200106.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

Parents of newborns and seriously ill children often know about family leave options, but are too overwhelmed to apply for them. Most parents interviewed in this study wanted expert guidance and saw hospitals and clinics as promising information sources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100103.html Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011

Using a 12-year county-level panel, this study found that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in hospitals with electronic medical records reduces neonatal mortality by 16 deaths per 100,000 live births.

http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/MFLS.html Sep 17, 2010 Sep 17, 2010

The Malaysian Family Life Surveys were conducted in 1976-1977 and 1988-1989. The surveys collected detailed current and retrospective information on family structure, fertility, economic status, education, and more from a partially-overlapping sample of more than 4,000 individuals and households.

http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/EGSF.html Sep 15, 2010 Sep 15, 2010

The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP602z1.html Mar 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010

<p>What can governments do to address the demographic challenge? RAND Europe examines population ageing: consequences and possible solutions.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100023.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>This article tests whether parents reinforce or compensate for child endowments.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9478.html Oct 9, 2009 Oct 9, 2009

<p>Describes the characteristics of rural hospitals and those who use them and discusses the challenges these hospitals face.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090326.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091104.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>Determine the effect of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) and moderately low birth weight (MLBW; 1500-2499 g) on children's mental and motor development and physical growth during the first 2 years of life and whether VLBW and MLBW babies catch up to normal birth weight (NBW; >/=2500 g) children by age 2.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090713.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>Moderate iodine deficiency in Mexican schoolchildren was associated with a 4.26 times higher risk of low IQ. More attention is needed to ensure effective salt iodination processes.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090428.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>This article summarizes results from a child care survey of military families conducted by the RAND Corporation in 2004 and draws policy implications for the military child care system.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081401.html Sep 1, 2008 Sep 1, 2008

<p>The empirical results of this paper imply that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2008-04.html Apr 30, 2008 Apr 30, 2008

<p>The Spring 2008 issue of RAND Review compares neonatal services across the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, discusses water resources management, U.S. policies in Asia, and political polarization.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR515.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Gathers information on the provision of neonatal services in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden and Australia. It was produced to support the National Audit Office&rsquo;s Value for Money study of neonatal services in England. Therefore, the report aims to provide a compendium of relevant data to facilitate comparisons and benchmarking of neonatal services (organisation, statistics, and so on).</p>