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Cost-Optimal Scale of Child Care Institutions

Vidar Ringstad and Knut Løyland

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1998, vol. 10, issue 3, 305-311

Abstract: In this paper we explore the scale properties in the operation of child care institutions. The main issue is whether or not there exists a technically optimal scale of operation. Our results, based on a homothetic production function model and data from a sample of Norwegian child care institutions, suggest that a technically optimal scale does exist. This confirms some of the results recently obtained for US child care institutions. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Keywords: Economies of scale; Child care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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