Most Papers and Reports listed below are available by clicking the hyperlink. Reports that are not hyperlinked are available from P. Sjostedt, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 (telephone 781-283-2157; email: PSjostedt@wellesley.edu).

  Work on the Impacts of Early Care & Education Policy and Administration

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (November 2005). An Examination of the Duration of Child Care Subsidies in Rhode Island:  Impacts of Policy Changes and Cross State Comparisons, Working Paper.  Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Department of Economics. Click here for the report & here for the appendix with figures & tables.

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (March 2004). Child Care Choices of Low-Income Families Receiving Child Care Subsidies, Working Paper.  Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Department of Economics.

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (January 2004). What Happens when Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet, Working Paper #10227.  Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. 

• Lemke, Robert, Witt, Robert & Witte, Ann Dryden, The Transition from Welfare to Work, Working Paper.  Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Department of Economics.

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (May 2003). Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work, Working Paper #9693.  Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. 

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (April 2002). Take-Up Rates and Trade Offs after the Age of Entitlement: Some Thoughts and Empirical Evidence for Child Care Subsidies, Working Paper #8886.  Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. 

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (August 2002). "Evaluation of Rhode Island's Starting RIght Program: May 1996-April 2001," Report to the Rhode Island Department of Human Services.

Work on Take-Up Rates and Child Care Trade Offs

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (March 2002). "Take-Up Rates and Trade Offs After the Age of Entitlement: Some Thoughts & Empirical Evidence for Child Care Subsidies." Also available as NBER Working Paper 8886

Evaluation of Rhode Island's Supportive Welfare Reform, FIP

• Witte, Ann Dryden, Queralt, Magaly, & Tauchen, Helen. (November, 2001). "Evaluation of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program." Working Paper #2001-08, Wellesley, MA: Department of Economics, Wellesley College. Available at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/wkpapers/index.html. United Way of South Eastern New England has summarized this and other work on Rhode Island's welfare reform.  

Work on the Quality, Price and Availability of Child Care

• Witte, Ann Dryden & Queralt, Magaly. (June, 2005). "Assessing the Quality of Child Care Using Longitudinal, Administrative Data: What Can It Tell Us and How Can It Be Used?" Working Paper, Wellesley, MA: Department of Economics, Wellesley College. Click here for the report & here for the appendix that contains figures.

• Witte, Ann Dryden, Queralt, Magaly, Witt, Robert & Griesinger, Harriet. (July, 2001-Revised February 2002--available as NBER Working Paper 8893). "The Policy Context & Infant and Toddler Care in the Welfare Reform Era." Working Paper #2001-04, Wellesley, MA: Department of Economics, Wellesley College. Available at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/wkpapers/index.html

• Queralt, Magaly, Witte, Ann Dryden & Griesinger, Harriet. (July, 2000). "Championing Our Children": Changes in Quality, Price and Availability of Child Care in the Welfare Reform Era. Working Paper #2000-07, Wellesley, MA: Department of Economics, Wellesley College. Available at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/wkpapers/index.html

• Witt, Robert, Queralt, Magaly, and Witte, Ann Dryden. (November, 2000). Measuring Changes in Child Care Availability, Quality and Price in Massachusetts between 1997 and 1999.   Working Paper #2000-12, Wellesley, MA: Department of Economics, Wellesley College. Available at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/wkpapers/index.html

  Work on the Impact of Child Care Subsidies, Welfare Reform and the Minimum Wage

• Lemke, Robert J., Witte, Ann Dryden, Queralt, Magaly, & Witt, Robert.  (March, 2000-Revised March 2001-available as Wellesley Working Paper 2001-02).   Child care and the welfare to work transition.    Working Paper #W7583.  Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.  Available at: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7583.

• Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt, Tasneem Chipty and Harriet Griesinger, “Unintended Consequences? The Welfare Reform "Package" and the Earnings of Low-Income Women," Working Paper #6798, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 1998. Revised, June 1999. Available at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opre/profiles.htm.
• Tasneem Chipty, Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt and Harriet Griesinger, “What Is Happening to Families Receiving Cash Assistance?: A Longitudinal Study of the Early Stages of Welfare Reform," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in New York City, January, 1999.

  Work Estimating the Unmet Need for Social Services

• Magaly Queralt and Ann Dryden Witte, "Estimating the Unmet Need for Child Care: A Practical Approach." Working Paper 99-05, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, August, 1999.

• Queralt, M. & Witte, A. D. (1999). ESTIMATING THE UNMET NEED FOR CHILD CARE IN MASSACHUSETTS. Special Report #CRW24. Wellesley, MA: Center for Research on Women.

  Work Estimating the Impacts of Regulations and Information on Child Care Markets

  Work on the Duration of Child Care

• Ann D. Witte and Magaly Queralt (May, 1999). “Duration of Subsidized Child Care Arrangements in Five Areas of Massachusetts.” Working Paper available from the authors.

• Robert Witt, Magaly Queralt, and Ann Dryden Witte. “Duration of Subsidized Child Care Enrollments in the Birmingham Areas of Alabama: A Briefing Report. Working paper available from the authors.

• Magaly Queralt and Ann Dryden Witte (December, 1998). “Duration of Subsidized Child Are Arrangements in Broward County: A Briefing Report.” Working paper available from the authors.

  Work on Employment Patterns of Low-Income Women

• Tasneem Chipty and Ann Dryden Witte, “The Black-White Wage Gap in the Deep South: Location, Location, Location?” Working Paper 98-03, Tri-State Child Care Research Partnership, Miami, FL.

• Tasneem Chipty and Ann Dryden Witte, “Employment Patterns of Workers Receiving Subsidized Child Care: A Study of Eight Counties in Alabama,” Available from Margie Curry, Executive Director, Childcare Resources, 1904 First Ave. North, Birmingham, AL 35203-4006

• Tasneem Chipty and Ann Dryden Witte, Parents Receiving Subsidized Child Care: A Study of Alabama’s Labor Force, Working Paper 98-01, Tri-State Child Care Research Partnership, Miami, FL.

• Harriet Griesinger, Tasneem Chipty and Ann Dryden Witte, “Employment of Parents Receiving Subsidized Child Care in Dade County, Florida.” Working Paper 98-03, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 02481.