| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25335 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25335 |
| Who\u2019s Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality | |
| James Gordon; Chris M. Herbst; Erdal Tekin | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-12-10 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly an explicit goal of government policy. However, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough understanding of the factors that influence parents’ child care decisions. This paper provides the first evidence on the demand for child care characteristics in the market for home-based care. Using a randomized audit design, we study three dimensions of caregiving: affordability (i.e., the hourly price of child care), quality (i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find that while parents are extremely sensitive to the cost of child care, they also have strong preferences for quality, particularly caregivers’ educational attainment. Furthermore, we obtain mixed results on the convenience dimensions of child care, with parents valuing those owning a car but not those with more availability. Finally, we find significant heterogeneity in child care preferences according to families’ age of youngest child, race and ethnicity, and willingness-to-pay. Our findings are consistent with the notion that the problem of low-quality in the U.S. child care market may be explained by lack of affordability or the informational resources to identify high-quality care, rather than an undervaluation of such care by parents. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25335 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583008 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Gordon,Chris M. Herbst,Erdal Tekin. Who\u2019s Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality. 2018. |
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| w25335.pdf（1104KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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