Across the developing world education is seen as a means of raising levels of everyday wellbeing and is being linked to improved measures of productivity and economic growth. This paper employs a household production function framework to examine the determinants of school attendance among...

Berenice Nyland argues that over the past 25 years Australia has developed a comprehensive child care industry as a work-force support. In the 1990s Australian child care underwent enormous changes, including privatization and the introduction of quality improvement strategies. She argues that...