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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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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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Investing in Early Childhood Development in Preschool and at Home

Duncan, Greg J.; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

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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 Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2009

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

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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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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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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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