Reports, articles, and briefs

Recent publications:

• Mitchell, A. & Stoney, L. (2009) An Actionable Federal Framework to Promote QRIS in the States.

• Liu, Z., & Warner, M. E. (2009). Understanding Geographic Differences in Child Care Multipliers: Unpacking IMPLAN's Modeling Methodology. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 39(1): 71-85.

• Warner, M.E. (2009). Overview: The Regional Economics of Child Care. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 39(1): 37-39.

• Shellenback, Karen 2009. Child Care & Cornell Child Care Grant Subsidy Program Survey: Impact on the Cornell Community, Summary Report.

• Shellenback, Karen and Mildred E. Warner 2009. "Integrating Care, Work and Community: New Policies for a New Economy, A Report from the Cornell University Conference: Preparing for the New Century: Innovative Work and Family Strategies."

• Morrissey, Taryn and Mildred E. Warner (2009), "Employer-Supported Child Care: Who Participates?" Journal of Marriage and Family, forthcoming.

• Adriance, Shira, Caroline Marshall, Bjorn Markeson, Louise Stoney and Mildred Warner 2009. From Regional Economic Analysis to Economic Development Policy: A Review of State and Local Child Care Economic Impact Studies. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Warner, Mildred and Raymond Gradus. 2009. "The Consequences of Implementing a Child Care Voucher: Evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI 2009-078/3, Erasmus University, Netherlands.

• Warner, M.E. 2009. Recession, Stimulus and the Child Care Sector: Understanding Economic Dynamics, Calculating Impact.

• Pratt, James. 2009. Valuing Nonmarket Family Care Time Using National Income Accounts and the American Time Use Survey, Cornell University

• Adriance, Shira 2009. To Gender or Not to Gender: An Analysis of Economic Impact Reports of the Child Care Sector. Cornell University.

• Warner, M.E. 2009. Child Care Multipliers: Stimulus for the States

• Stoney, L. & A. Mitchell. 2009. Maximizing Resources from the Stimulus Package: Possible Strategies for Funding Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

• Warner, Mildred E 2009. "(Not)Valuing Care: A Review of Recent Popular Economic Reports on Preschool in the US," Feminist Economics, 15(2)

• Stoney, L and Mitchell, A. 2008 "Using Tax Credits to Promote High Quality Early Care and Education Services." Partnership for America's Economic Success. Issue Paper #2 November 20, 2007

• LINCC, Linking Investments in Child Care (2008). Building child care into new developments: a guide for creating child care facilities in transit-oriented developments.

• Shellenback, Karen, 2007. Cornell Child Care Grant Subsidy Program, Online Survey - Evaluation Report 2007.

• Warner, M.E. 2007 “Planning for Inclusion: The Case of Child Care,” Practicing Planner, 5(1) March 2007.

• Kay, David L., James E. Pratt and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. Role of Services in Regional Economy Growth, Growth and Change 38(3):419-442.

• Warner, M.E., Kristen Anderson and George Haddow, 2007. "Putting Child Care in the Picture: Why this service is a critical part of community infrastructure," Planning, (June 2007): 16-19.

• Warner, M.E. and George Haddow, 2007. "Child Care: An Essential Service for Disaster Recovery," Save the Children Issue Brief #3 June, 2007.

• Warner, M.E. 2007 "Planning for Inclusion: The Case of Child Care," Practicing Planner, 5(1) March 2007.
• Morrissey, Taryn and M.E. Warner 2007. "Why Early Care and Education Deserves as Much Attention, or More, than Prekindergarten Alone" Applied Developmental Science, 11(2): 57-70.

• Kay, David L., James E. Pratt and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. Measuring the Role of Local Services with Hypothetical Extraction, Growth and Change forthcoming 38(3) September 2007.

• Warner, M.E. editor. 2006. The Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development. Special Issue Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37:2. 115 pages.
• Stoney, Lousie, Anne Mitchell and Mildred E. Warner 2006. "Smarter Reform: Moving Beyond Single Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System," Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37 (2): 101-115.
• Warner, Mildred E. 2006. "Putting Child Care in the Regional Economy: Empirical and Conceptual Challenges and Economic Development Prospects," Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37 (2): 7-22.
• Warner, M.E. 2006 "Child Care and Economic Development: The Role for Planners," Planning Advisory Service PAS Memo, American Planning Association. Jan/Feb 2006.

• Warner, M.E. and Zhilin Liu 2006. "The Importance of Child Care in Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Economic Linkage," Economic Development Quarterly 20(1):97-103.

• Stoney, L. 2005. Beyond the Comfort Zone: New Ideas for the Early Care and Education Industry. Ithaca, NY and Raleigh, NC: Cornell Univ. Dept of City and Regional Planning and National Smart Start Technical Assistance Center.

• Warner, M. E., & Liu, Z. 2005. Regional economic development and local services: The case of child care. International Journal of Economic Development, 7(1):25-64.

• Pratt, James and Kay, David 2004. “Beyond Looking Backward: Child Care and the Hypothetical Extraction Method,” Paper presented at the Mid-western Regional Science Association, Madison WI.

• Stoney, Louise 2004. Collective Management of Early Childhood Programs: Approaches that Aim to Maximize Efficiency, Help Improve Quality and Stabilize the Industry. Ithaca, NY and Raleigh, NC: Cornell Univ. and the National Smart Start Technical Assistance Center.

• Stoney, L. 2004. Framing Child Care as Economic Development: Lessons from Early Studies. Ithaca NY: Cornell Univ. Dept of City and Regional Planning.

• Shellenback, K. 2004. Child Care and Parent Productivity: Making the Business Case, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Dept of City and Regional Planning.

• Liu, Zhilin, Rosaria Ribeiro and Mildred Warner, 2004. "Comparing Child Care Multipliers in the Regional Economy: Analysis from 50 States," Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning. The full paper has detailed tables on the model results for every state; a brochure, containing a brief summary of the paper, is also available.

• Warner, M., Adriance, S., Barai, N., Hallas, J., Markeson, B., Morrissey, T., & Soref, W. 2004. Economic Development Strategies to Promote Quality Child Care, Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning: Ithaca, NY. (A brochure version is also available.)

• "The Child Care Industry: An Integral Part of Long Island's Economy," L. Stoney, M. Warner and K. Klockowski (2004), Child Care Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

• Ribeiro, Rose and M. Warner 2004. "Measuring the Regional Economic Importance of Early Care and Education: The Cornell Methodology Guide." Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. (An interactive version with Excel worksheets is also available.)

• "Investing in New York: An Economic Analysis of the Early Care and Education Sector," 2004. M. Warner et al. Prepared for NYS Child Care Coordinating Council and NYS Office of Children and Family Services.
• "Investing in the Child Care Industry: An Economic Development Strategy for Kansas," March 2003. Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas.
• Warner, M.E., Rosaria Ribeiro and Amy Erica Smith, 2003. "Addressing the Affordability Gap: Framing Child Care as Economic Development," Journal of Afforable Housing and Community Development Law, 12(3):294-313. 
• "The Economic Impact of Vermont's Child Care Industry," June 2002. Windham Child Care Association and Peace and Justice Center, I served on the advisory committee.

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Special journal issues

Two special journal issues and a special journal section have been devoted to child care and economic development issues.

• Warner, M. E. (Ed.) (2009). Special Section on the Regional Economics of Child Care. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 39(1).
• Warner, M. E. (Ed.) (2007). Child Care and Economic Development [Special Issue]. International Journal of Economic Development, 9(3-4).
• Warner, M. E. (Ed.) (2006). The Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development [Special Issue]. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 37(2).

PowerPoint Presentations

• Child Care: Critical to Economic Recovery. Plenary Presentation at the State Child Care Administrators' Meeting, July 29, 2009.
• Energizing your Human Capital for Organizational Resiliency: The Business Case for Work/Life Initiatives. Presentation from the Smart Start Conference, May 8-9, 2007
• A series of presentations presented to the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba in April 2007 (overview, intellectual challenges, political challenges, and technical challenges)
• Early Care and Education: A Regional Economic Framework, presented to the Strongest Links Conference in January 2006
• A Regional Economic Analysis of the Child Care Sector in NYS, Presented to the NYS Child Care Coordinating Council, Annual Meeting, Albany, NY, Jan. 14, 2004.
• Understanding the Impact of Child Care on Local Economies, PowerPoint presentation from the Child Care Bureau Research Symposium, April 15, 2004
• Linking Child Care and Economic Development: Four Challenges. PowerPoint presentation from the State Child Care Administrators' Meeting, August 2003
• The Economic Impact of the Early Care and Education Sector. Presentation from the National Association of Counties (NACO) Meeting, July 2003
• Child Care as Economic Development: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges. Presentation from the Child Care Bureau Research Meeting, April 2003

Other Work

• INTERACTIVE The database of Child Care Economic Impact studies contains information about completed and in-progress studies across the United States and Canada.
• Innovative Approaches. A fact sheet on what's going on in child care finance in other areas.
• Financing Child Care. A summary of a report by Ann Mitchell, Louise Stoney, and Harriett Dichter on public and private child care financing strategies throughout the U.S.
• Looking Into New Mirrors. A summary of a Louise Stoney paper describing financing and provider network strategies from other policy fields, including health care, higher education, transportation, and housing.
• Annotated Bibliography. Research on child care policy.
• Web sites. Links to sources of child care data and useful websites.