This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be explained by factors other than the partners’ potential to communicate on the timing of their work. ...

Consumer education efforts are undergoing revisions in response to provisions in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 and the 2016 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) final rule. Specifically, each State must maintain a website that contains information about child care providers in the State or local area, results of providers’ monitoring and inspection reports (in...

The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence Anecdotal evidence suggests that the cost of child care in the U.S. has increased substantially over the past few decades. This paper marshals data from a variety of sources to rigorously assess the issue. It begins by using nationally representative survey data to trace the evolution in families’ child care expe...

Based on the exogenous policy impact of divestiture social functions by state-owned enterprises in China,we select five rounds CFPS survey data and 104 city characteristic to study long-term reduced access public childcare services labor participation behavior women aged 16-55. The results show that decreased will have a significant adverse women’s personal income levels,and job promotion oppor...

The community child health clinics continued to provide an important and popular service for mothers with young children in Newcastle during 1972-1974, supplementing the primary care services of general practitioners as only a minority of them had undertaken the preventive aspects of child care. Most of the work of the community clinics was done by health visitors and it consisted of advice, su...

The delivery of child care has traditionally taken the form of "vertical" programmes with "standard" technical contents, largely based upon a few models from the developed countries. These models were based on the provision of continuous supervrsion and preventive care for mothers and ch ildren in affluent societies where coverage is good. Consequently, during even recent decades, ch ild health...

Introduction In spite of emphasis on institutional delivery, a considerable number of births are being conducted at home and by traditional birth attendant (TBA). Institutional delivery is hypothesised to improve health seeking behaviour and health care practices related to infant and child care. In this paper we report that in a poorly performing district institutional delivery does not seem t...

Not much is known about how health insurance affects preventive care for children who have access to general routine paediatric care, especially in less developed settings. This study evaluates the effects of child health insurance on preventive care (measured by whether the child had received all the age-appropriate immunizations) for children with access to routine paediatric care. It uses a ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to 1) assess sociodemographic and health characteristics associated with having a continuous source of care (CSOC) among young children and 2) determine the relationship between having a CSOC and use of parenting practices. METHODS We conducted a prospective, community-based survey of women receiving prenatal care at Philadelphia community health centers. ...