The child care problem : an economic analysis / David M. Blau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blau, David (David M.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child care--Economic aspects--United States.

Child care.

Child care services--Economic aspects--United States.

Child care services.

Child care--Economic aspects.

Child care services--Economic aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2001.

System Details:

text file

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.

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Blau, David (David M.). Child care problem

ISBN:

9781610440592

1610440595

OCLC:

905604686

Publisher Number:

10.7758/9781610440592

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.