Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality
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- James Gordon & Chris M. Herbst & Erdal Tekin, 2018. "Who’s Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality," NBER Working Papers 25335, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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child care; early childhood; education; parent preferences; field experiments;JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2019-01-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-URE-2019-01-21 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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