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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers

Blau, David M. - 1999

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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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2008

is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then show … difference. We speculate that one reason for this positive education gradient relates to the investment aspect of time spent with …

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Can Consumers Detect Lemons? Information Asymmetry in the Market for Child Care

Mocan, H. Naci - 2001

This paper applies direct tests for adverse selection and moral hazard in the market for child care. A unique data set containing quality measures of various characteristics of child care provided by 746 rooms in 400 centers, as well as the evaluation of the same attributes by 3,490 affiliated...

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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work : An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Mocan, H. Naci - 2000

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...

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The Determinants of Child Care Workers' Wages and Compensation : Sectoral Differences, Human Capital, Race, Insiders and Outsiders

Mocan, H. Naci - 1997

and zero for aides. An additional year of general education brings about a 5 percent increase in teacher wages, and half …

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The Child Care Industry : Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality

Mocan, H. Naci - 1995

than other centers. Child care workers with 13 to 15 years of education and workers with 16 and more years of education are … substitutes. Both of these groups are complements to workers with 12 and less years of education. Centers have inelastic demand …

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Quality Adjusted Cost Functions for Child Care Centers

Mocan, H. Naci - 1995

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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Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts

Guryan, Jonathan - 2001

The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …

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