The Childcare Economics Conundrum: Quality versus Affordability
Author(s)
Nelson, Julie A.
Abstract
Childcare quality, the affordability of childcare services, and the compensation of childcare staff are the crucial issues in the economics of childcare. Focusing on the issue of wage levels in childcare, the author asks what the standard economic model tells us about such wages. To what extent does this model help to analyze the quality-affordability wages dilemma? To what extent does the issue of childcare wages itself pose challenges to “the economic way of thinking”?
