IMPACTS OF CHILD CARE REGULATIONS

描述：美国每个州都在一定程度上规定了 儿童保育市场。这些法规的倡导者通常会证明 政府对儿童保育的干预理由是 法规提高了儿童的结果。当证据有限的时候 倾向于受监管的护理的一些特征是 与更好的孩子结局相关，还没有研究确定 法规与儿童结果之间的联系。这样做的目的是 申请是为了确定儿童保育法规是否提供了 改善儿童结局，这是 法规的合理性。 在拟议的研究中，计划了两项主要的分析任务。第一, 他们将同时评估学龄前保育模式的选择 价格、照顾时间和母亲的劳动力参与度。这款车 允许法规同时输入模式需求和价格公式以及 利用州级托儿法规中的差异来确定 这些规定的影响。评估策略考虑到 模型中决策的关联性和选择性 观察到的妇女以不同的方式工作和支付护理费用。 其次，调查人员将评估儿童的结局 家庭选择选择性的控制函数 使用第一阶段的结果进行特殊护理模式。 数据来自全国青少年儿童数据纵向调查(NLSY-C) 将会被使用。这项调查包括有关托儿模式的信息 选择、价格和属性，以及孩子和家庭 第一个任务中使用的特征。NLSY-C包括 儿童评估模块，报告儿童认知的测量， 社会情绪和身体发展在第二个阶段使用 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.