PUBLICATIONS from THE INSTITUTE ON CHILD AND FAMILY POLICY at Columbia University

• Globalization, Migration and Children: The Need for a Human Rights Approach, Lecture series on "The Future of Children in a Global Society," by Mary Robinson.

CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND CHILDREN
Columbia University, Faculty House
May 3-4, 2001
Funded by the Ford Foundation

Edited versions of Conference papers and full report to be published in Spring 2002 including an introduction by the editors.

• Sheila B. Kamerman, Social Exclusion and Children: Background and Context.
• Chiara Saraceno, Social Exclusion, Cultural Roots And Diversities Of A Popular Concept
• John Micklewright, Social Exclusion and Children: A European View for a US Debate
• Peter Evans with Suzanne Bronheim, John Bynner, Stephan Klasen, Phyllis Magrab, & Stewart Ranson, Social Exclusion and Students With Special Needs (click here for accompanying figures)
• Robert Haveman and Andrew Bershadker, Alternative Concepts for the Measurement of Children's Poverty: Review, Assessment, and a New Approach
• J. Lawrence Aber, Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff, & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Social Exclusion of Children in the U.S.: Compiling Indicators of Factors From With and By Which Children Are Excluded.
• Closing Note

• Conference Program
• Conference Participant List
• Brief Bios of Presenters, Discussants, Chairs and Panelists

CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE (ECEC)
Columbia University, Faculty House
May 11 and 12, 2000

• Sheila B. Kamerman, Early Childhood Education and Care: An Overview of Developments in the OECD Countries.
• Peter Moss, Workforce Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care.
• Marcia K. Meyers and Janet C. Gornick, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Cross-National Variation in Service Organization and Financing.

Meyers/Gornick Figures & Tables:
Figure 1: Main Institutional Arrangements for Provision of Public ECEC (Middle 1990s)
Table 1: Institutional Arrangements for Direct Government Provision of ECEC (Middle 1990s)
Table 2: Additional Government Mechanisms for Financing ECEC (Middle 1990s)
Table 3: Public and Private Shares in Financing of Publicly-Supported ECEC (Middle 1990s)
Table 4: Public Investments in ECEC (Selected Countries)
Table 5: Inclusion in Publicly-Supported ECEC (Middle 1990s)

• Michelle Neuman, Hand in Hand: Improving the Links Between ECEC and Schools in OECD Countries.
• John Bennett, Goals, Curricula and Quality Monitoring in Early Childhood Systems.
  

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Social Policies, Family Types, and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries, Prepared for OECD, by Sheila B. Kamerman, Michelle Neuman, Jane Waldfogel, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.

• Welfare States, Family Policies, and Early Childhood Education, Care, and Family Support: Options for the Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Countries, Prepared for UNESCO, by Sheila B. Kamerman.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Maureen Baker and David Tippin, Poverty, Social Assistance and the Employability of Mothers. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).

Bertelsmann Foundation (editor), International Reform Monitor: Social Policy, Labour Market Policy, Industrial Relations, Issue 5/October 2001(Gutersloh, Germany: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers).

Bertelsmann Foundation (editor), International Reform Monitor: Social Policy, Labour Market Policy, Industrial Relations, Issue 4/April 2001(Gutersloh, Germany: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers).

Bertelsmann Foundation (editor), International Reform Monitor: Social Policy, Labour Market Policy, Industrial Relations, Issue 3/October 2000 (Gutersloh, Germany: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers).

Bertelsmann Foundation (editor), International Reform Monitor: Social Policy, Labour Market Policy, Industrial Relations, Issue 2/April 2000 (Gutersloh, Germany: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers).

Bertelsmann Foundation (editor), International Reform Monitor: Social Policy, Labour Market Policy, Industrial Relations, Issue 1/1999 (Gutersloh, Germany: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers).

Jonathan Bradshaw, et al, Policy and the Employment of Lone Parents in 20 Countries (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, D.G.V, 1996).

Jonathan Bradshaw, John Ditch, Hilary Holmes and Peter Whiteford, Support for Children: A Comparison of Arrangements in Fifteen Countries, Department of Social Security, Research Report No. 21 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1993).

Council of Europe, Recent Demographic Developments in Europe (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1999).

Council of Europe, Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Family Affairs. Toward a Child-Friendly Society, National Reports Parts I & II (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, May 1999).

European Commission & Eurostat, The social situation in the European Union (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000).

Sheila B. Kamerman, Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives (New York: Columbia University, Institute for Child and Family Policy, 2001).

Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman, Social Policy and the Under-3s: Six Country Case Studies (New York: Cross-National Studies Research Program, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1994).

Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn, eds., Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997). (Other volumes in this series on "Family Change and Family Policies in the West" forthcoming, 2000, 2001, 2002.)

Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn, Starting Right (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Jane Millar and Andrea Warman, Family Obligations in Europe (London: Family Policy Studies Centre, 1996).

MIRE (Mission Recherche Experimentation), Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Southern Europe (Paris: Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, 1997).

Niels Ploug and Jon Kvist, eds., Recent Trends in Cash Benefits in Europe (Copenhagen: Danish National Institute of Social Research, 1994).

Jens Qvortrus, et al, Childhood Matters (Brookfield, Vt.: Avebury, 1994).

Tina Rostgaard and Torben Fridberg, Caring for Children and Older People-A Comparison of European Policies and Practices (Copenhagen: The Danish National Institute of Social Research, 1998.)

Social Security Administration, Social Security Programs Throughout the World-2000 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000).

Koen Vleminckx and Timothy Smeeding, eds. Child Well-Being, Child Poverty, and Child Policy in Modern Nations (Bristol, Eng.: Policy Press, 2000, forthcoming).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

European Commission, D.G.V, Social Protection in the Member States of the European Union: Situation on 1 January, 1998 and Evolution (Luxembourg: Office of the Official Publications of the European Communities, 1999).

European Commission, EUROSTAT, Living Conditions in Europe (Luxembourg: Office of the Official Publications of the European Community, 1999).

European Commission, EUROSTAT, Social Protection Expenditures and Receipts: European Union, Iceland and Norway Data, 1980-1996. (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1999).

European Commission, "Key Data on Education in Europe, 1999-2000" (Brussels, 2000)

Statistical Office of the European Communities, Eurostat, Social Protection Expenditure and Receipts, 1980-1993 (1995); Digest of Statistics on Social Protection in Europe, Vol. 4, Family (1993); Social Protection Expenditures and Receipts, 1980-1996 (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).

European Observatory on National Family Policies of the European Commission

John Ditch, et al, A Synthesis of National Family Policies 1994 (York: Social Policy Research Unit, 1996).

John Ditch, et al, Developments in National Family Policies in 1994 (York: Social Policy Research Unit, 1996).

John Ditch, Helen Barnes and Jonathan Bradshaw, A Synthesis of National Family Policies 1995 (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, D.G.V, 1996).

John Ditch, Helen Barnes and Jonathan Bradshaw, eds. Developments in National Family Policies in 1995 (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 1996).

John Ditch, Helen Barnes and Jonathan Bradshaw, eds., Developments in National Family Policies in 1996 (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, D.G.V, 1998).

Wilfried Dumon, , ed. Changing Family Policies in the Member States of the European Union (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 1994).

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Coordinating Services for Children and Youth at Risk: A World View (Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1998).

Elizabeth Duskin, Lone Parent Families (Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1950).

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Family, Market, and Community: Equity and Efficiency in Social Policy, OECD Social Policy Studies, No. 21 (Paris: 1997).

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The Battle Against Exclusion: Social Assistance in Australia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Paris: 1998).

OECD, Education at a Glance (Paris, 2000).

OECD in Figures, 1999 Edition, Supplement to the OECD Observer, July 1999 (Paris).

 

UNITED NATIONS

UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, 2000 (Paris: United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000).

United Nations, Demographic Yearbook (New York, annual).

United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) State of the World's Children; Progress of Nations (Paris: Annual).

Innocenti Occasional Papers in Florence, Italy: Unicef International Child Development Centre.

Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jäntti, Child Poverty Across Industrialized Nations (1999).

John Mickelwright and Kitty Stewart, Is Child Welfare Converging in the European Union? (1999).

Cathal O'Donoghue and Holly Sutherland, Accounting for the Family: The Treatment of Marriage and Children in European Income Tax Systems (1998).

Innocenti Report Card, Issue No. 1 (June, 2000). "A League Table of Child Poverty In Rich Nations."