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The child care system in the United States is widely criticized, yet the underlying structural problems are difficult to pin down. In The Child Care Problem, Da

“I’ve totally washed away the dream of having one more child.” “I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-parent, but the cost of child care turned me i

Valerie Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, dis

"David Blau has chosen seven economists to write chapters that review the emerging economic literature on the supply of child care, parental demand for care, ch

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "exper