Volume 31, Number 1 (Winter) 1996
Chaplin, Duncan D., Sandra L. Hofferth, and Douglas A. Wissoker. 1996. "Price and Quality in Child Care Choice: A Revision." Journal of Human Resources 31(3):703-706.
In Hofferth and Wissoker (1992) we estimated the effects
of price and quality on mode of child care chosen. We found large negative effects of price and
quality on choice This paper presents a revised version of our original model. The new results
suggest negative price effects which are smaller than those in the original paper. The estimated
effects of child/ staff ratios also become less negative and one becomes positive.
Duncan Chaplin and Douglas Wissoker are Research Associate and Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute, 2100 M Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 2003 7-1207. Sandra Hofferth is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48 106-1248. This work was funded by grant R01HD28712 from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. The research assistance of Rosalind Berkowitz, editorial work of Kyna Rubin, and typing of Mildred Woodhouse are all gratefully acknowledged. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in November 1966 through October 1996 from Duncan Chaplin at the Urban Institute.
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