The production of quality in child care centers

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 354-387

  Blau, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002171485     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/146219     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Arnett, Jeffrey. 1989. "Caregivers in Day Care Centers: Does Training Matter?" Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 10:541-52.
2. Belsky, Jay. 1990. "Parental and Nonparental Child Care and Children's Socioemotional Development: A Decade in Review." Journal of Marriage and the Family 52:885-903.
3. Blau, David M. 1991. "The Quality of Child Care: An Economic Perspective." In The Economics of Child Care, ed. David M. Blau, 145-74. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.
4. Blau, David M., and Alison Hagy. 1996. "The Demand for Quality in Child Care." Mimeo. Department of Economics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
5. Bronson, Martha B., Terrance Tivnan, and Patricia S. Seppanen. 1995. "Relations between Teacher and Classroom Activity Variables and the Classroom Behaviors of Prekindergarten Children in Chapter 1 Funded Programs." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 16:253-82.
6. Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison. 1987. "Predicting Child Development from Child Care Forms and Features: The Chicago Study." In Quality in Child Care: What Does Research Tell Us? ed. Deborah A. Phillips, 21-42. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
7. Dunn, Loraine. 1993. "Proximal and Distal Features of Day Care Quality and Children's Development." Early Childhood Research Quarterly 8:167-92.
8. Goelman, Hillel, and Alan Pence. 1987. "Effects of Child Care, Family, and Individual Characteristics on Children's Language Development: The Victoria Day Care Research Project." In Quality in Child Care: What Does Research Tell Us? ed. Deborah A. Phillips, 89-104. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
9. Hagy, Alison. 1996. "Child Care Quality: Hedonic Prices, Demand, and the Effects of Government Subsidization." Mimeo. Department of Economics. Claremont, Calif.: Pomona College.
10. Hanushek, Eric A. 1986. "The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in the Public Schools." Journal of Economic Literature 24(3):1141-77.
11. Harms, Thelma, and Richard Clifford. 1980. Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University.
12. _. 1986. "Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale." Mimeo. Frank Porter Graham Center. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
13. Hausman, Jerry A. 1978. "Specification Tests in Econometrics." Econometrica 46: 1251-72.
14. Hayes, Cheryl D., John L. Palmer, and Martha J. Zaslow, eds. 1990. Who Cares for America's Children? Child Care Policy for the 1990s. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
15. Holloway, Susan, and Marina Reichhart-Erickson. 1988. "The Relationship of Day Care Quality to Children's Free-Play Behavior and Social Problem-Solving Skills." Early Childhood Research Quarterly 3:39-53.
16. Howes, Carollee. 1983. "Caregiver Behavior in Center and Family Day Care." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 4:99-107.
17. Howes, Carollee, Laura M. Sakai, Marybeth Shinn, Deborah Phillips, Ellen Galinsky, and Marcy Whitebook. 1995. "Race, Social Class, and Maternal Working Conditions as Influences on Children's Development." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 16:107-24.
18. Kontos, Susan, and Richard Fiene. 1987. "Child Care Quality, Compliance with Regulations, and Children's Development: The Pennsylvania Study." In Quality in Child Care: What Does Research Tell Us? ed. Deborah A. Phillips, 57-80. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
19. Kontos, Susan, Hui-Chin Hsu, and Loraine Dunn. 1994. "Children's Cognitive and Social Competence in Child Care Centers and Family Day Care Homes." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 15:387-411.
20. McCartney, Kathleen. 1984. "Effect of Quality of Day Care Environment on Children's Language Development." Developmental Psychology 20:244-60.
21. Mocan, Naci. 1995. "The Child Care Industry: Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality." Denver: Center for Research in Social Policy, University of Colorado at Denver.
22. Mocan, Naci, Margaret Burchinal, John R. Morris, and Suzanne W. Helburn. 1995. "Models of Quality in Center Child Care." In Cost, Quality, and Outcomes in Child Care Centers, Technical Report, ed. Suzanne Helburn, 279-304. Denver: Center for Research in Social Policy, University of Colorado at Denver.
23. Mukerjee, Swati, and Ann Witte. 1993. "Provision of Child Care: Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-for-Profit Day Care Centers." Journal of Productivity Analysis 4:145-63.
24. Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen and Margaret Burchinal. 1995. "Child Care Quality and Children's Developmental Outcomes." In Cost, Quality, and Outcomes in Child Care Centers, Technical Report, ed. Suzanne Helburn, 305-18. Denver: Center for Research in Social Policy, University of Colorado at Denver.
25. Phillips, Deborah A., ed. 1987. Quality in Child Care: What Does Research Tell Us?, Washington D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
26. Phillips, Deborah, Kathleen McCartney, and Sandra Scarr. 1987. "Child-Care Quality and Children's Social Development." Developmental Psychology 23(4):537-43.
27. Powell, Irene, and James Cosgrove. 1992. "Quality and Cost in Early Childhood Education." Journal of Human Resources 27(3):472-84.
28. Preston, Anne E. 1993. "Efficiency, Quality, and Social Externalities in the Provision of Day Care: Comparisons of Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms." Journal of Productivity Analysis 4:165-82.
29. Robins, Philip K. 1991. "Child Care Policy and Research: An Economist's Perspective." In The Economics of Child Care, ed. David M. Blau, 11-42. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.
30. Ruopp, Richard, Jeffrey Travers, Frederic Glantz, and Craig Coelen. 1979. Children at the Center. Cambridge Mass.: Abt Books.
31. Vandell, Deborah Lowe, V. Kay Henderson, and Kathy Shores Wilson. 1988. "A Longitudinal Study of Children with Day-Care Experiences of Varying Quality." Child Development 59:1286-92.
32. Waite, Linda J., Arleen Leibowitz, and Christina Witsberger. 1991. "What Parents Pay For: Child Care Characteristics, Quality, and Costs." Journal of Social Issues 47(2): 33-48.
33. Walker, James R. 1991. "Public Policy and the Supply of Child Care Services." In The Economics of Child Care, ed. David M. Blau, 51-78. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.
34. Weiss, Andrew. 1990. Efficiency Wages. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
35. Whitebook, Marcy, Carollee Howes, and Deborah Phillips. 1989. Who Cares? Child Care Teachers and the Quality of Care in America. Oakland: The Child Care Employee project.
36. Zaslow, Martha J. 1991. "Variation in Child Care Quality and Its Implications for Children." Journal of Social Issues 47(2):125-38.