The Production of Quality in Child Care Centers
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: —We use data from a sample of child care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and child care quality, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality, designed by devel-opmental psychologists, that is positively associated with child develop-ment. Taking the estimated cost-quality and revenue-quality relationships as given, we estimate the objective functions of firms and compute the quality supply function. The results indicate that the supply of quality is moderately elastic with respect to price and the wages of child care center workers. Implications of the results for child care policy are discussed. I.
Source: The Journal of Human Resources
DOI: 10.2307/146219
Author: David M. Blau
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1513850158