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Do child care regulations affect the child care and labor markets?
Author(s) -
Blau David M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.1002/pam.10140
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , child care , robustness (evolution) , demographic economics , economics , identification (biology) , labour economics , public economics , medicine , psychology , nursing , biochemistry , chemistry , communication , gene , botany , biology
The effect of child care regulations on outcomes in the child care market and the labor market for mothers ofyoung children is examined. The analysis uses a time series of cross sections and examines the robustness ofprevious cross‐section findings to controls for state‐level heterogeneity. Child care regulationsas a group have statistically significant effects on most outcomes, with or without state fixed effects.However, regulations do not vary enough within state over time to allow precise identification of mostindividual regulation effects. The great majority of estimated regulation effects in all specifications aresmall and insignificantly different from 0. Some of the estimated effects seem reasonable in sign and magnitude,but others are clearly implausible. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis andManagement.