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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

Lemke, Robert J. - 2000

education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …

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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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The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States : Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

Most European governments have universal, consolidated, education-based ECE programs that are available from early in … (Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) and the child care voucher program) targeted to low-income children. With a few …

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What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet?

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

We provide substantial evidence that placing child care provider inspection and complaint reports on the Internet changed the behavior of child care inspectors and improved the quality of child care received by low-income children. We believe that these results were forthcoming in part because:...

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Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2003

assistance and enrolled in some approved activity (e.g., education or training) other than work. We were not able to assess the …

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Effects of Information Provision in an Vertically Differentiated Market

Chipty, Tasneem - 1998

We study the effects of consumer information on equlibrium market prices and observable product quality in the market for child care. Child care markets offer a unique opportunity to study these effects because of the existence of resource and referral agencies (R&Rs) in some markets. R&Rs...

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Economic Effects of Quality Regulations in the Daycare Industry

Chipty, Tasneem - 1994

We estimate reduced form models to discern the effect of state regulation of the quality of center and family day care. Specifically, we consider the effects of the number of mandated inspections, limits on group size and staff/child ratio, and staff training requirements on equilibrium price...

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Provision of Child Care : Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-for-Profit Day Care Centers

Mukerjee, Swati - 1990

' in NPOs. PMOs are not optimizing with reference to the amount of education and experience in their personnel. The results …

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