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Child Care Problem An Economic Analysis / David M. Blau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blau, David (David M.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child care services--Economic aspects--United States.
- Child care services.
- Child care--Economic aspects--United States.
- Child care.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The child care system in the United States is widely criticized, yet the underlying structural problems are difficult to pin down.In The Child Care Problem, David M.Blau sets aside the often emotional terms of the debate and applies a rigorous economic analysis to the state of the child care system in this country, arriving at a surprising.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-259) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-059-5
- OCLC:
- 905604686
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