| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w7225
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 7225
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| The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers |
| David M. Blau; H. Naci Mocan
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| 发表日期 | 1999-07-01
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| 出版年 | 1999
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of quality has been found to be positively associated with child development. Taking the estimated cost-quality and revenue-quality relationships as given, we then estimate the objective functions of the firms and compute the supply function for quality. The results indicate that (1) the estimated cost function is inconsistent with the implications of cost-minimization; (2) for-profit firms operate at a positive level of marginal cost, but non-profit firms operate at zero or negative marginal cost; (3) revenue is positively but weakly associated with quality; and (4) the supply of quality is inelastic, with point estimates of the supply elasticity of .04-.05 for both for-profit and non-profit firms. Implications of the results for child care policy are discussed. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; Industrial Organization
; Firm Behavior
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7225
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/564758
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David M. Blau,H. Naci Mocan. The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers. 1999.
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