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increase in hours of children served brings about only an 8.5 percent increase in costs in the long-run. There is no evidence … the issue is less clear in the case of preschoolers and school aged children. The cost of increasing the quality of an …
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-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …
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We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
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Although there is a sizeable literature on the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, the number of studies that investigate the impact of school sector on non-academic outcomes is limited. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on...
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This paper investigates the determinants of wages and compensation in child care centers for teachers and aides. Nonprofit status has no across-the-board impact on wages. The extent of the wage premium enjoyed by some nonprofit workers depends on the category of the nonprofit center, occupation...
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Using a newly compiled data set, this paper estimates multi- product translog cost functions for 399 child care centers from California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Quality of child care is controlled by a quality index, which has been shown to be positively related to child...
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