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			The Arizona Kith and Kin Project Ocampo-Schlesinger, Sarah, 2005 In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 22-25). New York: Bank Street College of Education. A discussion of Arizona�s Kith and Kin Project, a non-profit aimed at providing services and training for low-income, family, friend, and neighbor childcare providers	Other
			Center-based child care staff in Alameda County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. An investigation of the current status of the child care workforce in Alameda County, California; one in a series of reports regarding the characteristics of licensed child care center staff and family child care providers in seven different California counties	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in Kern County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. An investigation of the current status of the child care workforce in Kern County, California; one in a series of reports regarding the characteristics of licensed child care center staff and family child care providers in seven different California counties	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in Monterey County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. An investigation of the current status of the child care workforce in Monterey County, California; one in a series of reports regarding the characteristics of licensed child care center staff and family child care providers in seven different California counties	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in Santa Clara County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. An investigation of the current status of the child care workforce in Santa Clara County, California; one in a series of reports regarding the characteristics of licensed child care center staff and family child care providers in seven different California counties	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in Santa Cruz County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. A survey of Santa Cruz County's licensed child care centers supplied information on center staff and turnover rate, educational preparations, wages, retirement benefits, and collective bargaining status	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in San Francisco County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: The Center for the Child Care Workforce. A survey of San Francisco County's licensed child care centers supplied information on center staff and turnover rate, educational preparations, wages, retirement benefits, and collective bargaining status	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care staff in San Mateo County: The California Child Care Workforce Study Whitebook, Marcy, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for the Child Care Workforce. A survey of San Mateo County's licensed child care centers supplied information on center staff and turnover rate, educational preparations, wages, retirement benefits, and collective bargaining status	Reports & Papers
			'The centre is my business': Neo-liberal politics, privatisation and discourses of professionalism in New Zealand Duhn, Iris, March 2010 Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(1), 49-60 A discussion of professionalism in both Kidicorp, a private corporatation subsidized to provide child care services, and a small, private center, to highlight the coexistence of different articulations and enactments of neo-liberal professionalism in early childhood education in New Zealand, based on an analysis of selections from documentation	Other
			The characteristics and training needs of school-age care programs in the larger metro Atlanta area [Executive summary] Todd, Christine M., 2002 Decatur, GA: Georgia School-Age Care Association. A summary of a study of intensive school age child care programs in the Atlanta area, using director surveys to determine supply, demographics, characteristics and problems, staff training needs, and differences between not-for-profit and for-profit programs	Executive Summary
			Child care by default or design?: An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets Doherty, Gillian, 2002 (Occasional Paper No. 18). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto, Childcare Resource and Research Unit. An analysis of the differences in child care quality in commercial versus publicly operated child care centers in Canada	Reports & Papers
			Childcare center directors' perceptions of their work environment: A comparison of for-profit and non-profit programs Mullis, Ann K., 2003 Early Child Development and Care, 173(5), 545-556 An exploration of the experiences of child care center directors and their working conditions, based on a sample of 310 directors of for-profit and not-for-profit child care centers	Reports & Papers
			Child care center quality differences: The role of profit status, client preferences, and trust Morris, John R., 2000 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(3), 377-399 An investigation of the view that in a mixed child care industry providing services to poorly informed customers, for-profit producers provide lower quality care than non-profit producers by skimping on quality characteristics that buyers cannot easily observe	Reports & Papers
			Child care workers' wages: New evidence on returns to education, experience, job tenure and auspice Cleveland, Gordon, 2002 Journal of Population Economics, 15(3), 575-597 An analysis of data on the child care labor market and the effects of sponsorship on child care center workers wages	Reports & Papers
			Closer than "arms length": Understanding the factors associated with collaborative contracting Amirkhanyan, Anna A., May, 2012 American Review of Public Administration, 42(3), 341-366 A study of the relationship between the development of collaborative relationships between contractors and government agencies and contract characteristics, contractor traits, and environmental factors, based on data from the Partnership Impact Research Project, a three-round longitudinal survey of more than 100 for-profit and nonprofit child care centers, as well as Head Start agencies, in Ohio	Reports & Papers
			Commercial child care in Canada: Can child care thrive in a speculative investment environment? Dragomir, Gerald, 22 May, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Coalition of Child Care Advocates of British Columbia. An examination of the commercial viability of for-profit child care chains in Canada, based on a critical analysis of the operating model of a publicly-traded Canadian child care company	Other
			Cost functions, efficiency, and quality in day care centers Mocan, H. Naci, 1997 Journal of Human Resources, 32(4), 861-891 A study contrasting the quality and efficiency of profit and nonprofit child care providers with differing amounts of child care experience	Reports & Papers
			The effects of property rights on labor costs of nonprofit firms: An application to the day care industry Preston, Ann E., 1988 The Journal of Industrial Economics, 36(3), 337-350 An economic discussion of the differences of labor costs between nonprofit and for-profit firms in the child care industry with theoretical perspective drawn from literature on property rights and theories of nonprofit labor markets	Reports & Papers
			Employees' views on quality Rush, Emma, 2007 In E. Hill, B. Pocock, & A. Elliott (Eds.), Kids count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia (pp. 154-178). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Sydney University Press. An analysis by center for-profit status (non-profit community-based providers, small, independent for-profit providers, and for-profit corporate providers) of the quality of care provided in Australian child care centers, based on a national survey of the beliefs of staff working at full-day child care centers	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating System in child care settings [Executive summary] University of Pittsburgh. School of Education. Office of Child Development, December 2006 Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, School of Education, Office of Child Development. A summary of an observational study examining the effects of Pennsylvania�s Keystone STARS Quality Rating System on child care quality in participating child care centers, group child care homes, and family child care homes	Executive Summary
			Examining profit and nonprofit child care: An odyssey of quality and auspices Kagan, Sharon Lynn, 1991 Journal of Social Issues, 47(2), 87-104 A study of the relationship between for-profit and nonprofit child care types and the respective quality of their early child care and education programs from historical, research, and policy perspectives	Other
			Examining Swedish profit and nonprofit child care: The relationship between adult-to-child ratio, age composition in child care classes, teaching and children's social and cognitive achievements Sundell, Knut, 2000 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15(1), 91-114 An examination of the relationship between adult-to-child ratio, age composition in child care classes, and instructional style, and children's cognitive achievement, verbal abilities, and social skills, with an analysis of ways the relationship differs in for-profit as compared to nonprofit child care centers, based on a sample of 32 centers in Stockholm, Sweden	Reports & Papers
			For-profit child care: Past, present and future Prentice, Susan, 2005 (Occasional Paper No. 21). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto, Childcare Resource and Research Unit. An overview of for-profit child care centers in Canada	Reports & Papers
			Hindsight from Australia: Foresight for BC Coalition of Child Care Advocates of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. An examination of concerns about publicly-funded and for-profit multinational corporations operating child care centers in Australia and the possibility of their expansion into British Columbia, Canada	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			How and why parents select profit-making day care programs: A study of two southeastern university college communities Bradbard, Marilyn R., 1983 Child Care Quarterly, 12(2), 160-169 A study of the factors influencing parents' choice of profit-making child care centers, using data from a survey of 86 parents with children attending six different profit-making child care centers in two southeastern college communities	Reports & Papers

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