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The demand for child care quality: an hedonic price theory approach.

I use an hedonic price theory approach to estimate the demand for child care quality. Two complementary surveys, the National Child Care Survey, 1990 (NCCS) and the Profile of Child Care Settings Study (PCS), allow me to derive an implicit price for staff-to-child ratio. I use this price as an expl...

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Published in:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 683 - 711
Main Author: Hagy, Alison P.
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Summer98
Subjects:
Externalities
Prices
Working mothers
Child care
Economic demand
Mathematical models
United States
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