Childcare markets in the US: Supply and demand, quality and cost, and public policy

Childcare Markets: Can They Deliver an Equitable Service?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-151

  Sosinsky, Laura Stout ^a,b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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