IMPACTS OF CHILD CARE REGULATIONS

描述：美国的每一个州都在一定程度上规范着 托儿市场。 这些法规的倡导者通常认为， 政府对儿童保育的干预，理由是 规章制度加强儿童的成果。 虽然证据有限 倾向于受到监管的护理的一些特征是 与更好的儿童结果相关，没有研究确定 法规与儿童成果之间的联系。 这个目标 申请是为了确定儿童保育条例是否提供 改善儿童的成果，这是 法规的合理性。 在拟议的研究中，计划两个主要的分析任务。 第一、 他们将在评估学前护理模式选择的同时， 价格、护理时间和母亲的劳动力参与。该模型 允许法规进入模式需求和价格方程， 利用州一级儿童保育法规的变化来确定 条例的影响。 评估策略考虑到 模型中决策的相关性和选择性 观察到妇女以不同方式工作和支付护理费用。 第二，研究人员将估计儿童结局生产 家庭选择选择性控制函数 使用第一阶段的结果的特殊护理模式。 全国青少年数据纵向调查（NLSY-C） 将用于 这项调查包括有关幼儿照顾模式的资料 选择，价格和属性，以及儿童和家庭 在第一个任务中使用的特性。 NLSY-C包括 一个儿童评估模块，报告儿童认知， 社会情感和身体发展，用于第二个 任务

DESCRIPTION: Every state in the U.S. regulates some dimension of the child care market. Advocates of these regulations typically justify government intervention in child care on the grounds that the regulations enhance child outcomes. While there is limited evidence that some of the characteristics of care that tend to be regulated are correlated with better child outcomes, no research has established a link between the regulations and child outcomes. The goal of this application is to determine whether child care regulations provide the improvement in child outcomes that is the foundation of the justification for regulations. In the proposed study, two primary analytic tasks are planned. First, they will estimate preschool care mode choice simultaneously with care price, hours of care and mother's labor force participation. This model allows regulations to enter both the mode demand and price equations and utilizes variation in state-level child care regulations to identify the effects of the regulations. The estimation strategy takes into account the interrelatedness of the decisions in the model and the selectivity of the women observed working and paying for care in different modes. Second, the investigators will estimate child outcome production functions controlling for the selectivity of families choosing particular care modes using results from the first stage. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Data (NLSY-C) will be used. This survey includes information on child care mode choice, price and attributes, as well as child and family characteristics that are used in the first task. The NLSY-C includes a child assessment module that reports measures of children's cognitive, socioemotional and physical development that are used in the second task.