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One Says Goodbye, Another Says Hello : Turnover and Compensation in the Early Care and Education Sector

Cunha, Flávio; Lee, Marcos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

retention and compensation in the Early Care and Education workforce by merging datasets from three different government … agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to compare turnover and pay in Early Care and Education with those in other …

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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial

Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low …

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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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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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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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Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development

Chaparro, Juan - 2020

This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...

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Introducing CogX : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2020

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

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Child-Driven Parenting : Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype

Breinholt, Asta - 2020

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …

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The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education

Bassok, Daphna - 2017

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently …

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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

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