The demand for quality in child care

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blau, DM; Hagy, AP
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/250004
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 104-146
• 关键词: implicit markets; structural model; hedonic prices; married-women; COSTS

摘要

We estimate a model of demand for quality-related attributes of child care: group size, staff/child ratio, and provider training. The model is estimated jointly with equations for mode, expenditure on and hours of care, and the mother's labor supply The results show that a lower price of child care in a particular mode leads to substitution toward that mode and an increase in the use of paid child care. A decrease in the price of care causes an increase in hours of care demanded and a decrease in the demand for quality-related attributes. Income effects on demand for quality are small.