Child Care Studies & Reports

New Jersey

New Jersey Child Care Landscape

• New Jersey 2020 Strategic Plan Preschool Development Grant Birth through 5 (PDG B-5)
• New Jersey 2019 Needs Assessment Preschool Development Grant Birth through 5 (PDG B-5)
• Understanding the Early Child Care Landscape in New Jersey (New Jersey Community Capital and Rutgers Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, 2021)
• Infant and Toddler Child Care Data Needs in New Jersey (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022)
• 2021 Child Care Market Rate Survey Report (Rutgers University, July 2022)
• New Jersey Strategic Plan for Preschool Expansion, Phase 1: The Foundation (October 2022)
• New Jersey Strategic Plan for Preschool Expansion, Phase 2: Implementation (December 2024)
• FY2025 New Jersey Mixed Delivery Preschool Report (March 2025)
• New Jersey Preschool Development Grant, 2016 Annual Performance Report
• The State of Preschool Yearbook 2023 (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022), NJ Profile
• State(s) of Head Start and Early Head Start: Looking at Equity (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022), NJ Profile

Early Childhood Workforce

• NJ Early Childhood Workforce Profile (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020)
• New Jersey’s Childcare Landscape During COVID-19: A Slow and Uneven Recovery (Rutgers NJ State Policy Lab, School of Management and Labor Relations, Center for Women and Work, 2021)
• Carrots and Sticks: New Jersey’s Effort To Create a Qualified PK-3 Workforce (Foundation for Child Development, 2006)

National

Child Care Landscape

• Child Care in State Economies: 2024 Update (Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2024)
• Strategies for States to Improve Safety Net Program Access and Efficiency (Urban Institute, February 2022)
• Seven Ways States Can Make Child Care Subsidies More Accessible and Equitable (Urban Institute, February 2022)
• Using Child Care Subsidy Payment Rates and Practices to Incentivize Expansions in Supply (Urban Institute, September 2022)
• Toward Pay Equity: A Case Study of Washington DC’s Wage Boost for Early Childhood Educators (Urban Institute, June 2023)
• Means-Tested State Prekindergarten Programs Are More Segregated Than Universal Prekindergarten Programs (Urban Institute, June 2023)

• State Snapshots of Potential Demand for and Policies to Support Nontraditional-Hour Child Care (Urban Institute, July 2021)
• Child Care Remains Central to an Equitable Recovery (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 17, 2022)
• The Economic Role of Paid Child Care in the U.S. (The Committee for Economic Development (CED), February 2022)
• Start with Equity: Advancing Equity in Early Care and Education Systems with the American Rescue Plan Act (Children's Equity Project, June 2021)
• Child Care Gap Assessment (35 States, Bipartisan Policy Center, 2019)
• National Women's Law Center, Annual State Child Care Assistance Subsidy Report (2024)
• The Shifting Supply of Regulated Family Child Care in the U.S., A Literature Review and Conceptual Model (Erikson, 2021)
• Early Learning Facilities Policy Framework (Bipartisan Policy Center, November 2018)
• From the Ground Up: Improving Child Care and Early Learning Facilities (Bipartisan Policy Center, May 2019)
• Child Care in State Economies (Committee for Economic Development, 2019)
• Increasing Access to Quality Child Care for Four Priority Populations, Challenges and Opportunities with CCDBG Reauthorization (Urban Institute, 2018).
• Coordinated Efficiencies in Monitoring and Oversight of Early Care and Education Programs (HHS & USDA, 2016)

Early Childhood Workforce

• Early Childhood Workforce Index (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2024); NJ Profile
• What We Know, Don't Know, and Should Know About the Child Care Workforce (Bipartisan Policy Center, April 30, 2024) State Profiles.
• Supporting Child Care Workers as Parents: How the Kentucky Subsidy Income Exclusion for Child Care Employees Helps Increase Access to Child Care (Buffett Early Childhood Institute, Bipartisan Policy Center, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, November 2024)
• Using Worker Flows to Assess the Stability of the ECE Workforce, 2010 - 2022 (Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, 2024)
• Top-Down, Bottom-Up: Building a State Child Care Center Workforce (Bipartisan Policy Center, March 2024)
• Prevalence of Chronic Diseases, Depression, and Stress Among US Childcare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Elharake JA, Shafiq M, Cobanoglu A, Malik AA, Klotz M, Humphries JE, Gilliam, W. et al, September 2022 - CDC web site)
• Early Childhood Workforce Index (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020)
• Supporting the Child Care and Early Education Workforce, A Menu of Policy Options for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery (Urban Institute, 2021)
• Professionalizing the Child Care Workforce:  Understanding the Low Rates of Credential Completion among Early Educators, (SEELA- Study of Early Education in Louisiana, June 2022)
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (2021). Database: ECE Workforce Compensation Tracker
• Professional Characteristics of the Early Care and Education Workforce: Descriptions by Race, Ethnicity, Languages Spoken, and Nativity Status (December 2020)
• Demographic Characteristics of the Early Care and Education Workforce: Comparisons with Child and Community Characteristics (December 2020)
• Center- and Program-Level Factors Associated with Turnover in the Early Childhood Education Workforce (Institute of Education Sciences, 2021)

Child Care Background Checks

• Noncriminal Justice Background Checks & the NICS
• Criminal History Records (background)
• Next Generation Identification Rap Back Services
• Interagency Task Force on Child Safety Report to Congress: Background Checks (HHS, 2022)
• Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2018 (Released November 2020)
• CJIS Noncriminal Rap Back Service (FBI)
• Barriers and Solutions to Implementing CCDBG Act Interstate Background Check Requirements (OPRE, 2022)
• States’ Status of and Identified Barriers to Implementation of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 Out-Of-State Background Check Requirements (OPRE, 2021)