Child care arrangements and mothers' employment choices

This study assesses the relative effects of economic, demographic and attitudinal factors on mothers' joint choices of level of employment and type of child care using a sample of mothers of preschool children from the 1987 National Survey of Families and Households. In the first analysis, choices among combinations of full and part-time employment and market and nonmarket child care are predicted with variables affecting labor force participation, child care need and cost, and preferences. In the second analysis, choices among parental, relative, sitter and group care are predicted for employed mothers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human and Community Development

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Folk, Karen Fox

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nickols, Sharon Y.

• Education, Home Economics
• Economics, Labor
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Folk, Karen Fox

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9210804
(UMI)AAI9210804

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21231