DEMAND FOR AND SUPPLY OF QUALITY IN CHILD CARE

有大量证据表明， 在美国，由成年人照顾的幼儿， 他们的父母定期。 幼儿的幸福是 因此，越来越密切相关的特点， 儿童保育安排，其中儿童花费大量的 时间 该项目的目标是研究家庭和 儿童的特点和儿童保育安排的属性， 孩子们的幸福和那些影响便利的人， 可靠性，以及其他与儿童不直接相关的特征- 存在 这些估计数将提供评估 对儿童保育质量的需求，以及如何在儿童保育质量的需求， 政府儿童保育政策的变化将影响儿童保育。 同样，该研究将估计 提供多种托儿服务产出的技术。 的 参数提供了评估生产成本所需的信息 不同特点的儿童保育和儿童保育的供应 具有替代特性。 实证分析将使用四个 国家数据集和三个特定地点数据集。 所有这些 提供有关儿童结果、儿童保育质量 措施、儿童保育安排的特点、成本、费用、 投入价格以及儿童和家庭特征。

There has been a large and well-documented increase in the number of young children in the United States who are cared for by adult other than their parents on a regular basis. The well-being of young children is therefore increasingly closely related to the characteristics of the child care arrangements in which children spend substantial amounts of time. The goals of this project are to study the effects of family and child characteristics and the attributes of child care arrangements on the well-being of children and those that affect convenience, reliability, and other features not directly associated with child well- being. These estimates will provide the information needed to assess the demand for quality in child care, and how the demand for quality in child care would be affected by changes in government child care policies. Similarly, the study will estimate the important parameters of the technology of producing the multiple outputs of child care services. The parameters provide the information needed to assess the cost of producing child care with different characteristics, and the supply of child care with alternative characteristics. The empirical analysis will use four national data sets and three site-specific data sets. Together, these provide a wealth of information on child outcomes, child care quality measures, the characteristics of child care arrangements, cost, fees, input prices, and child and family characteristics.