Public or Private Responsibility? Early Childhood Education and Care, Inequality, and the Welfare State

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Meyers, Marcia K ^a   Gornick, Janet C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENDER; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SOCIALIZATION; TAX;

EID: 0348048747     PISSN: 00472328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jcfs.34.3.379     Document Type: Review

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