Reliable access to dependable, high quality childcare services is a vital concern for large numbers of American families. The childcare industry consists of private nonprofit, private for-profit, and governmental providers that differ along many dimensions, including quality, clientele served,...

This foreword and the subsequent four invited articles were commissioned by Eric T. Bradlow while Editor-in-Chief of <i>Marketing Science</i>. The foreword was written in four parts; each part covers a different aspect of the Workshop on Quantitative Marketing and Structural Econometrics. The workshop...