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…