Does state preschool crowd-out private provision? The impact of universal preschool on the childcare sector in Oklahoma and Georgia

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-33

  Bassok, Daphna ^a   Fitzpatrick, Maria ^b,d   Loeb, Susanna ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Childcare; Crowd out; Government provision; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905711938     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Abadie Alberto, Diamond Alexis, Hainmueller Jens Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: estimating the effect of California's tobacco control program. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2010, 105(490):493-505.
2. Baker Michael, Gruber Jonathan, Milligan Kevin Universal child care, maternal labor supply, and family well-being. Journal of Political Economy 2008, 116(4):709-745.
3. Barnett W.S., Carolan M.E., Fitzgerald J., Squires J.H. The State of Preschool 2012: State Preschool Yearbook 2012, National Institute for Early Education Research, New Brunswick, NJ.
4. Bassok, Daphna, Fitzpatrick, Maria, Loeb, Susanna, 2013. Does State Preschool Crowd-Out Private Provision? The Impact of Universal Preschool on the Childcare Sector in Oklahoma and Georgia. NBER Working Paper No. 18605.
5. Bassok, D., Miller, L., Galdo, E., 2014. The Effects of Universal State Pre-kindergarten on the Size and Composition of the Child Care Sector: The Case of Florida's Voluntary Pre-kindergarten Program. EdPolicyWorks Working Paper. http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/27_Universal_PreK_and_the_Child_Care_Sector.pdf.
6. Blau David M. The supply of child care labor. Journal of Labor Economics 1993, 11(2):324-347.
7. Blau David M. Unintended Consequences of Child Care Regulations, Unpublished Paper 2003, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
8. Blau David, Currie Janet Pre-school, day care, and after-school care: who's minding the kids?. Handbook of the Economics of Education 2004, 1163-1278. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. E. Hanushek, F. Welch (Eds.).
9. Brackett, Margaret H.H., Henry, Gary T., Weathersby, Jeanie, 1999. Report on the Expenditure of Lottery Funds Fiscal Year 1999. Council for School Performance, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
10. Burke, Lindsey, 2010. More Government Preschool: An Expensive and Unnecessary Middle-Class Subsidy. The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2378.
11. Card David, Shore-Sheppard Laura Using discontinuous eligibility rules to identify the effects of the federal medicaid expansions on low income children. Review of Economics and Statistics 2004, 86(3):752-766.
12. Cascio Elizabeth Maternal labor supply and the introduction of kindergartens into American public schools. The Journal of Human Resources 2009, 44(1):140-170.
13. Cascio, Elizabeth, Schanzenbach, Diane Whitemore, 2013. The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
14. Cellini Stephanie Riegg Crowded colleges and college crowd-out: the impact of public subsidies on the two-year college market. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2009, 1(2):1-30.
15. Chipty, Tasneem, Witte, Ann D., 1997. An Empirical Investigation of Firms' Responses to Minimum Standards Regulation, Cambridge MA: NBER, Working Paper #6104, July.
16. Chipty Tasneem Economic effects of quality regulations in the day care industry. American Economic Review 1995, 85:419-424.
17. Cohen Andrew Milman, Freeborn Beth A, McManus Brian Competition and crowding out in the market for outpatient substance abuse treatment. International Economic Review 2013, 54(1):159-184.
18. Cohodes, Sarah R., Goodman, Joshua S., forthcoming. Merit aid, college quality and college completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an in-kind subsidy. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
19. Currie, Janet, Hotz, V. Joseph, 2001. Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy. Cambridge MA: NBER, Working Paper #8090.
20. Currie Janet, Thomas Duncan Does head start make a difference?. American Economic Review 1995, 85(3):341-364.
21. Currie Janet, Thomas Duncan Does head start help Hispanic children?. Journal of Public Economics 1999, 74(2):235-262.
22. Cutler David M., Gruber Jonathan Does public insurance crowd out private insurance?. Quarterly Journal of Economics 1996, 111(2):391-430.
23. Dynarski Susan Hope for whom? Financial aid for the middle class and its impact on college attendance. National Tax Journal 2000, 53(3):629-661.
24. Eriksen Michael D., Rosenthal Stuart S. Crowd out effects of place-based subsidized rental housing: new evidence from the LIHTC program. Journal of Public Economics 2010, 94(11-12):953-966.
25. Fitzpatrick Maria D. Starting school at four: the effect of universal pre-kindergarten on children's academic achievement. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2008, 8(1). Article 46.
26. Fitzpatrick Maria D. Preschoolers enrolled and mothers at work? The effects of universal prekindergarten. Journal of Labor Economics 2010, 28(1):51-85.
27. Ganderton Philip T. The effect of subsidies in kind on the choice of a college. Journal of Public Economics 1992, 48(3):269-292.
28. Gordon Nora. Do federal grants boost school spending? Evidence from Title I. Journal of Public Economics 2004, 88(9-10):1771-1792.
29. Gormley William T., Gayer Ted Promoting school readiness in Oklahoma. Journal of Human Resources 2005, 40(3):33-558.
30. Gormley WilliamT., Gayer Ted Deborah Phillips, and Brittany Dawson, The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development. Developmental Psychology 2005, 41(6):872-884.
31. Gruber Jonathan, Simon Kosali Crowd-out ten years later: have recent public insurance expansions crowded out private health insurance?. Journal of Health Economics 2008, 27(2):201-217.
32. Herbst Chris M., Tekin Erdal Child care subsidies and child development. Economics of Education Review 2010, 29(4):618-638.
33. Hofferth Sandra L., Chaplin Duncan D. State regulations: and child care choice. Population Research and Policy Review 1998, 17:111-140.
34. Hotz, V. Joseph, Kilburn, Rebecca, 1997. Regulating Child Care: The Effects of State Regulations on Child Care Demand and Its Cost. xerox, Dept. of Economics, UCLA, October 1997.
35. Hotz V.Joseph, Xiao Mo The impact of regulations on the supply and quality of care in child care markets. American Economic Review 2011, 101(5):1775-1805.
36. Hungerman Daniel M. Are the church and state substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 welfare reform. Journal of Public Economics 2005, 89(11):2245-2267.
37. Johnson A.D., Ryan R.M., Brooks-Gunn J. Child care subsidies: do they impact the quality of care children experience?. Child Development 2012, 83(4):1444-1461.
38. Knight Brian Endogenous federal grants and crowd-out of state government spending: theory and evidence from the federal highway aid program. American Economic Review 2002, 92(1):71-92.
39. Levin Henry, Schwartz Heather Educational vouchers for universal preschools. Economics of Education Review 2007, 26:3-16.
40. Long Bridget Terry How do financial aid policies affect colleges? the institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship. Journal of Human Resources 2004, 39(4):1045-1066.
41. Magnuson Katherine A., Meyers Marcia K., Ruhm Christopher J., Waldfogel Jane Inequality in preschool education and school readiness. American Educational Research Journal 2004, 41(1):115-157.
42. Payne A.Abigail Does government funding change behavior? An empirical analysis of crowd out. Tax Policy and the Economy 2009, 159-184. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. J.R. Brown, J.M. Poterba (Eds.).
43. Peltzman Sam Effect of government subsidies-in-kind on private expenditures - case of higher education. Journal of Political Economy 1973, 81(1):1-27.
44. Ribar David Child care and the labor supply of married women: reduced form evidence. Journal of Human Resources 1992, 27(1):134-165. Winter.
45. Schweinhart, Lawrence J., 1993. Significant Benefits: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 27. Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, No. Ten. Missouri: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.
46. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development 2000, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. J.P. Shonkoff, D.A. Phillips (Eds.).
47. Whitebook Marcy, Sakai Laura Turnover begets turnover: an examination of job and occupational instability among child care center staff. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 2003, 18(3):273-293.
48. Whitehurst, Grover J., 2014. Can We Be Hard-Headed About Preschool? A Look at Universal and Targeted Pre-K. Brookings Institution. (accessed 04.04.14). http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2013/01/23-prek-whitehurst.