| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction and overview -- What is the child care problem? -- An overview of the child care market in the United States -- Economic models of child care -- Analysis of the child care market -- The demand of child care and the labor supply of mothers -- The supply of child care -- Equilibrium price and quality in the child care market -- The determinants and effects of child care quality -- Child care policy -- Child care subsidies -- Child care regulations -- What should we do about the child care problem? |
| Summary |
Blau (economics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) discusses problems of child care, such as low quality of care, lack of availability, high expense of care, and low earnings and high turnover of child care providers, from an economic perspective, focusing on conceptual issues, models, data, and empirical results. He describes the US child care market and presents economic models, analyzes aspects such as demand, supply, price, and determinants of quality, and looks at child care subsidy and regulation policies. He proposes a new child care policy that involves providing child care vouchers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child care -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Child care -- Economic aspects. |
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United States. |
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Child care. |
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Child care services -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Child care services -- Economic aspects. |
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Child care services. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blau, David (David M.). Child care problem 9780871541024 (DLC) 2001041786 (OCoLC)47208548 |
| ISBN |
9781610440592 electronic book |
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1610440595 electronic book |
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9780871541024 |
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0871541025 |
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9780871541017 |
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0871541017 |
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