A Profile Approach to Child Care Quality, Quantity, and Type of Setting: Parent Selection of Infant Child Care Arrangements

Applied Developmental Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-56

  Sosinsky, Laura Stout ^a   Kim, Se Kang ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84873110472     PISSN: 10888691     EISSN: 1532480X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2013.750196     Document Type: Article

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