CHOOSING CHILD CARE AND EMPLOYMENT

选择托儿服务和就业

• 批准号: 3330311
• 负责人: Sandra L Hofferth
• 金额: $ 11.52万
• 依托单位: URBAN INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-01-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3330311
• 关键词: child care; choice; community; decision making; employment of women; human data; income; mathematical model; model design /development; perception; performance; preference; socioeconomics

Who cares for children and who works for wages in the labor market are basic family decisions. The purpose of this proposal is to quantify the impact of the price of child care on the type of child care parents use and on the employment decision of the mother, controlling for other attributes of child care and employment, such as quality, convenience, and wages. The proposed research will refine previous models of child care for employed mothers and develop new models of the joint child care and employment choice. A serious problem plaguing previous studies of the effect of price on child care choices is selectivity bias, arising because price is only observed for the choices actually made by parents. In this study, we are able to more effectively control for selectivity bias because the survey data we use include information on the alternatives respondents did not choose as well as those they did. Two ways of estimating characteristics of alternatives are proposed: 1) using parents' perceptions of their alternatives and 2) using exogenous information on the availability and attributes of child care choices in the same community obtained through concurrent surveys with providers. The model will be used to conduct policy simulations of the effects on choice of changing the attributes of child care and employment and of changing the availability of care. The data come from three existing data sets linked together by county: the 1990 National Child Care Survey, the Profile of Child Care Settings Study, and a Contextual Data File. The impact of price and other attributes of care, characteristics of the family and characteristics of the area in which they live on choice of child care and employment will be examined using discrete choice models, including the mixed multinomial/ conditional logit model, the joint logit model, the nested logit model, and the universal logit model. As far as we know, this is the first attempt to formally link supply and demand for child care in U.S. communities.

谁在乎儿童，谁在劳动力市场上为工资工作 基本家庭决定。 该提议的目的是量化 育儿价格对育儿父母使用类型的影响 以及母亲的就业决定，控制其他 儿童保育和就业的属性，例如质量，便利性， 和工资。 拟议的研究将完善以前的儿童模型 照顾就业的母亲并开发新的联合儿童保育模型 和就业选择。 一个严重的问题，困扰着先前的研究 价格对儿童保育选择的影响是选择性偏见，引起 因为只有父母实际做出的选择才能观察到价格。 在这项研究中，我们能够更有效地控制选择性 偏见是因为我们使用的调查数据包括有关 其他受访者的选择不如他们所做的那样。 二 提出了估计替代特征的方式：1）使用 父母对替代方案的看法和2）使用外源性 有关儿童保育选择的可用性和属性的信息 通过与提供者的同时调查获得的同一社区。 该模型将用于对影响的影响进行策略模拟 选择改变育儿和就业属性以及 改变护理的可用性。 数据来自三个现有 由县链接在一起的数据集：1990年的国家儿童保育调查， 儿童保育设置研究的概况和上下文数据文件。 价格和其他护理属性的影响， 他们居住的地区的家庭和特征 将使用离散选择模型检查儿童保育和就业 包括混合的多项式/条件logit模型，联合logit 模型，嵌套logit模型和通用logit模型。 据，直到...为止 我们知道，这是正式联系供求的首次尝试 美国社区的托儿保育。