This paper uses proprietary quality of care data to examine the consequences of organizational form in privatized US foster care services. The contract failure hypothesis generically proposes that nonprofits should provide higher quality services, relative to for-profits, when output is costly...

We use proprietary quality of care data to examine the consequences of organizational form in privatized foster care services. This paper contributes to the empirical literature regarding the influence of organizational form on the performance outcomes of firms. Advocates argue that the...

Abstract We examine the claim that nonprofit markets have become more crowded over time. A naïve examination of the data indicates that the number of nonprofits has increased rapidly over the past two decades. However, this approach does not account for increases in population, income, or other...