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Title: Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice
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Hofferth, Sandra L. Wissoker, Douglas A. |
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Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice Journal of Human Resources 27,1 (Winter 1992): 70-111. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145913 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Child Care; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Logit This paper explores the hypothesis that parents consider the price and quality of child care as well as their own resources and needs when they make their child care decisions. Parents are expected to minimize price and maximize quality, controlling for income. Price is measured in terms of predicted expenditures on child care; quality is measured by the ratio of children to staff members. Data come from the 1985 wave of the NLSY. Expenditures for each mode of child care are modeled, correcting for selection, and predicted expenditures are obtained for each of four child care modes (center, sitter, relative, and husband/partner). Using a multinomial logit model, the impacts of price, quality, family income, and family characteristics on choice of each of these forms of child care are examined. |
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Hofferth, Sandra L. and Douglas A. Wissoker. "Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice." Journal of Human Resources 27,1 (Winter 1992): 70-111.
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