Estimates of Quality-adjusted Cost Function in the Okinawa's Child Care Industry: Evidence from Micro-level Data (in Japanese)

Satoshi Shimizutani and Haruko Noguchi

Economic Analysis, 2005, vol. 177, 25-48

Abstract: Okinawa suffers from a severe shortage of child care services, even among non-urban areas in Japan. This study is the first to take advantage of some unusually rich micro-level data to address to quantitative assessment of quality of child care and estimates of quality-adjusted costs function by types of management in Okinawa.

Date: 2005
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