Laura Gascue

Programmer and Quantitative Analyst, The Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics,

University of Southern California

Laura Gascue is a programmer and quantitative analyst in the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. She has been a senior analyst for EconOne Research and a statistical researcher for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education. She received her MA in statistics from University of California, Berkeley, and a licenciatura in economics from Universidad de la República in Uruguay.

updated 2000

Contributing topics

Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education

Publications by Laura Gascue

February 2000

Remember the Children

Mothers Balance Work and Child Care Under Welfare Reform: Executive Summary

In the summer of 1998, we began to invite single mothers with preschool-age children—all entering new welfare programs—into a four-year study. Our premiere aim was to learn how the upbringing and development of children may be altered by the…