Articulating the Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development
Special Issue: Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
Volume 37 No 2, June 2006.
This special issue, edited by Mildred E. Warner, focuses on the economic significance of child care in three areas: the importance of child care for the long term prospects of children, child care’s importance for parents as workers and child care purchasers, the importance of the child care industry for regional economies.
The papers, by an interdisciplinary array of leading experts, address a range of issues, including:
- concerns about the conceptual and methodological approaches to regional economic modeling.
- parent child care choices and labor force participation.
- the impact of early education on children.
- core principles for more comprehensive policy.
The papers in this special issue were first presented at a workshop on "Articulating the Economic Significance of Child Care," held at Cornell University on May 17-18, 2005, and supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The broad contributions of this array of experts make this special issue useful and exciting.
Table of Contents
- Overview: Articulating the Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development, Mildred E. Warner, Cornell University
- Putting Child Care in the Regional Economy: Empirical and Conceptual Challenges and Economic Development Prospects, Mildred E. Warner, Cornell University
- Beyond Looking Backward: Is Child Care a Key Economic Sector?, James Pratt and David Kay, Cornell University
- Rethinking the Child Care Sector, Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Choice and Accommodation in Parental Child Care Decisions, Marcia K. Meyers and Lucy Jordan, University of Washington
- Child Care, Female Employment and Economic Growth, Jean Kimmel, Western Michigan University
- Costs, Benefits, and The Long-Term Effects Of Preschool Programs, W. Steven Barnett and Debra J. Ackerman, National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers University
- Smarter Reform: Moving Beyond Single Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System, Louise Stoney, Anne Mitchell, Alliance for Early Education Finance & Mildred E. Warner, Cornell