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State regulations and the availability of child‐care services
Author(s) -
Gormley William T.
Publication year - 1991
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 - 10.2307/3325514
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , business , child care , nursing , medicine , computer science , algorithm
Most state regulations do not adversely affect the availability of regulated day‐care services. However, regulations differ in their costliness, intrusiveness, and enforceability. Costly regulations may reduce the number of group day‐care centers, and intrusive regulations may reduce the number of family day‐care homes. Unenforceable regulations have no apparent effects. In some instances, regulators face trade‐offs between quality and availability. However, requirements for provider training and limitations on group size do not involve such trade‐offs. More broadly, improvements in the regulatory process may result in quality gains without reductions in availability.