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The authors thank the Foundation for Child Development, A. L. Mailman Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, Smith-Richardson Foundation, Spunk Fund, Inc., and the Carnegie Corporation for their generous support of this research. We also acknowledge the enormous contribution of the research teams in each site without whom this study would not have been possible. Michael Kiernan and Ann Ricciuti at the University of Virginia provided expert assistance with analyses. Finally, and most important, we thank the many child care directors and teachers who spent many hours enabling us to collect the data for this study.
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Phillips, D.A., Howes, C. & Whitebook, M. The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality. Am J Commun Psychol 20, 25–51 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00942180
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