In this paper, we examine the effect of refulations, resource and referral agencies, and subsidies on the child\staff ratio at child care centers.

The Family Support Act allows states to reimburse child care costs up to the 75th percentile of the local market price for child care. For the state of Massachusetts, we developed a sampling design that equalized the standard errors of the estimated percentiles across 65 distinct local markets.

This paper studies employment patterns for low income workers receiving subsidized child care in Dade County, Florida. Florida has been an active state in welfare reform for several years. In July 1996, the AFDC program was supplanted in Florida by a new welfare program, Work and Gain Economic...

In this paper, we study the effects of consumer information on equilibrium 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...

Using factor analysis, ordinary least squares estimation, and maximum-likelihood ordered probit estimation, we examine the relationship between the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods and their supply of licansed childcare. We find that supply of licensed childcare in Massachusetts is...