For-profit/nonprofit differences in center-based child care quality: Results from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 390-410

  Sosinsky, Laura Stout ^a   Lord, Heather ^a   Zigler, Edward ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auspice; Child care centers; Child care quality; For profit nonprofit child care; Process quality; Sector; Structural quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548475338     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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