AN ECONOMETRIC MODEL OF THE DEMAND FOR CHILD CARE
作者:
PHILIP K. ROBINS,
ROBERT G. SPIEGELMAN,
期刊:
Economic Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1978)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 1
页码: 83-94
ISSN:0095-2583
年代: 1978
DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1978.tb00494.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Child care denotes any arrangement used by a working parent for care of a child, including self‐care. This paper is concerned with the factors that influence the demand for market modes of child care by two parent families with working mothers. An econometric model is specified that relates the demand for child care to price, income, and other economic variables. Because of the discrete nature of the child care decision, the multinomial logit probability model is used to analyze the data. The empirical results suggest that the demand for child care is sensitive to both prices and incom
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