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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

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Building on sand?
Land, Hilary, 2002
(Facing the Future: Policy Papers No. 4). London: Daycare Trust.

A critique of England’s efforts to deliver high quality affordable child care for all families throughout the country through the private-for-profit sector, with comparison of the child care system to the private sector’s delivering of social and residential care for elderly people since the mid-1980’s

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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'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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Community voices: Preschool directors speak on policy options: Preliminary findings [Advance copy]
Policy Analysis for California Education (Organization), 2006
Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.

A survey of the directors of preschool programs not funded by school districts in California on program characteristics and their views of increased state control of preschools

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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

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An economic perspective on the current and future role of nonprofit provision of early learning and child care services in Canada: Final project report
Cleveland, Gordon, 01 March, 2007
Unpublished manuscript.

An analysis comparing the quality of non-profit and for-profit child care centers in Canada based on a literature review, analysis of a national data set and three smaller data sets from Quebec and Toronto, and interviews with key informants

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Economy on the minds of for profit CEOs: Annual status report on for profit care
Neugebauer, Roger, January/February 2010
Exchange, (191), 23-26

A description of North America’s 50 largest for profit child care chains' self reported challenges to their operations, a description of for profit child care organizations and the largest franchising organizations, and a comparison of growth in the number of centers of the two largest child care franchising organizations in the United States

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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

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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

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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

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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

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