. First, there is no difference in average quality of the services produced between nonprofit and for-profit centers. This … indicates that nonprofit status cannot be taken as a signal of higher quality. Second, the hypothesis of relative inefficiency … for workers. There are economies of scale in production. Controlling for the level of quality of services, a 10 percent …

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 quality has been found to be positively associated with child …

from California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Quality of child care is controlled by a quality index, which … 18 percent higher than other centers, keeping quality of services constant. No statistically significant differences … distinguishable from their for-profit counterparts. In agreement with previous studies, the data show that the average quality of …