Supply and quality choices in private child care markets: Evidence from São Paulo

Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julián P.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.08.001

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“…Based on US longitudinal data, Hotz and Xiao (2011) find that more stringent regulations on establishment inputs increase quality (particularly in high-income locations) but reduce child care provision (particularly in low-income locations). Bastos and Cristia (2012) develop a model of monopolistic competition to explain the behavior of child care providers in a large Brazilian city. Using Census data, they find a positive association between household income and child care quality, which is consistent with their model.…”

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Childcare Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Berlinski,

Ferreyra,

Flabbi

et al. 2024

Journal of Political Economy

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We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price, and quality decisions under monopolistic competition. Child development is a function of the time spent with each parent and at the child care center; these inputs vary in their impact. We estimate the structural parameters of the model using the 2003 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which contains information on parental employment and wages, child care choices, child development, and center quality. We use our estimates to evaluate the impact of several policies, including vouchers, cash transfers, quality regulations, and public provision. Among these, a combination of quality regulation and vouchers for working families leads to the greatest gains in average child development and to a large expansion in child care use and female labor supply, all at a relatively low fiscal cost.

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confidence: 99%

Childcare Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Berlinski,

Ferreyra,

Flabbi

et al. 2024

Journal of Political Economy

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“…Accordingly, more competition is expected to result in cheaper, more efficient, responsive, innovative, flexible and high-quality services (Noailly and Visser 2009;OECD 2006;Penn 2009). Nonetheless, some studies argue that market-based provision leads to considerable heterogeneity in terms of availability, affordability and quality of ECEC, as profit-making providers reinforce inequalities for disadvantaged families (Bastos and Cristia 2012;Bennett 2004;Meyers and Gornick 2003;Noailly and Visser 2009;OECD 2006;Penn 2009;Sosinsky et al 2007). In the light of these claims, our first hypothesis is that childcare services would be perceived to be less accessible if private profit-making provision is allowed in the country.…”

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Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study

Ünver

Bircan

Nicaise

2018

ICEP

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Background Ensuring the access of every child to an inclusive and good-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is an important priority for governments as ECEC has a more profound and lasting effect on children's learning potential than any other intervention in their later lives at any other age, especially for disadvantaged children (Bowers et al. 2012; Cunha et al. 2006; Heckman 2006; Leseman 2009). An extensive body of literature recognises the social and economic benefits of ECEC for improved child well-being and learning outcomes, prevention of educational disadvantage, enhanced female employment, reduced (child) poverty, increased intergenerational social mobility and favourable outcomes later in life (Cunha et al. 2006; Leseman 2009; OECD 2012). Although the initial focus on ECEC was to free up mothers' time so that they can take part in the labour market (Mahon 2002), in line with scientific evidence on the positive outcomes of ECEC for the children themselves, the European discourse started to focus more on high-quality, holistic, complex, integrated, inter-sectoral and inclusive provision (Herczog 2012). However, whether these services are effectively accessible is often overlooked by researchers and policy makers (Vandenbroeck and Lazzari 2014), even more so for disadvantaged children from low-income families (

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“…Although the growing societal importance of childcare provision has long been recognised, the topic remains understudied in the context of hotel management (Gaines et al 2004). While extant research has looked into public (Shdaimah and Palley 2018) and private (Bastos and Cristia 2012) childcare provision as well as childcare provision at workplace (Harker 2000), no studies have specifically addressed this topic in the context of hotels.…”

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