Access to Childcare Services: The Role of Demand and Supply-Side Policies

Farfan-Portet, María-Isabel; Lorant, Vincent; Petrella, Francesca

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“…Compared with Environment-side policy instruments, Supply-side and Demand-side policy instruments seem to be more flexible and direct, which might, to a certain extent, eliminate unreasonable market-oriented mechanism problems. In addition, these two policy types could effectively promote urban renewal development and distribute profit more equitably between various stakeholders [38]. Nevertheless, the percentages of these two types of instruments were rather low, accumulating only 27.19% of the total, which indicates that there is a lack of balance overall in the policy instruments.…”

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An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China

Liu

Shrestha

et al. 2017

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Urban renewal is a pragmatic approach in the sustainable urban development of urban areas, and has now become an essential strategy for most metropolises in China. The question of how urban renewal can best be realized has gained the attention of urban planning researchers looking to formulate practical evidence-based urban renewal policies through policy instruments. This paper analyzes the urban renewal policies of Shenzhen, a pioneer city in China in the promulgation of urban renewal legislation. In doing so, an analytical framework is established by focusing on three main policy instruments, along with several sub-instruments within them. Shenzhen's five main urban renewal policies, issued between 2009 and 2016, are analyzed through this framework. Content analysis and pattern-matching is used in the review and analysis of the data. The results show that "Environment" side policies tend to be the most widely applied by the Shenzhen municipal government. Additionally, "Regulation Control" and "Goal-planning" policies are the two instruments most frequently adopted as sub-instruments. Moreover, it is found that the application of "Supply" side polices and "Demand" side polices needs be strengthened. These findings identify the types of urban renewal policies currently employed in China and provide a clear understanding of the current policy priorities, with suggestions and insight into further urban renewal policy initiatives for Shenzhen and beyond.

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An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China

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Shrestha

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“…Despite a lack of rigorous foundations, these attempts have merit in allowing an analysis of how various characteristics of each childcare mode will affect a household's decision when multiple childcare modes are available. In addition to the above‐mentioned works jointly analyzing work and childcare decisions, there exists another line of studies considering only a household's childcare mode choice problem after controlling for the mother's work status (e.g., Hofferth & Wissoker, ; Cleveland & Hyatt, ; Davis & Connelly, ; Farfan‐Portet, Lorant, & Petrella, ).…”

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“…(), Del Boca (), Kreyenfeld and Hank (), Davis and Connelly (), and Farfan‐Portet et al. () additionally controls for a measure of availability of each childcare mode. These studies find that the availability of a childcare facility is another major determinant that significantly increases the chance of using a specific childcare mode.…”

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How long is the queuing for public childcare facilities in Korea? An empirical analysis of Korean households' childcare mode choice with the limited availability of public childcare facilities

Woo

Jun

2018

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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This paper empirically investigates Korean households' choice of childcare mode using the Korean Childcare Users Survey (2012). A multivariate logit model with partial observability (hereafter, PO-logit model) is employed to address the issue of Korean households' demand for public childcare facilities exceeding capacity limits.Our estimation result rejects the hypothesis of no queueing at conventional significance levels to advocate use of the PO-logit model in explaining Korean households' childcare choices. We decompose choice probabilities of public childcare facilities to estimate the size of queuing. Our results imply that 31.8% of parents preferring public childcare facility are forced to choose other childcare modes due to capacity limit. K E Y W O R D S childcare facility demand, Korea, limited slot offer, multinomial model, partial observability 1 | INTRODUCTION In Korea, the rise in the labor market participation rate of married females requires more childcare facilities to care for children. In response to the increased demand for childcare facilities, the Korean Government has expanded the number of public childcare facilities operated by the state. The government also initiated fiscal programs to expand the availability of private childcare facilities. These initiatives have been successful in rapidly increasing childcare facilities. Between 2002 and 2016, the number of childcare facilities increased from 22,147 to 41,084, and the number of children using childcare facilities jumped from 800,991 to 1,451,215 (Figure 1).One interesting observation is parents' strong preference for public facilities. Public facilities charge lower prices and have desirable characteristics such as higher teacher quality and larger space. Most of all, public facilities are perceived to be a safer place where parents can leave their children without concerns about child abuse. The prevalence of this strong preference for public facilities makes it difficult for parents to find a vacancy in these facilities. This situation makes parents wait for a considerable period until their children are admitted to a public facility.Such excess demand has even triggered political campaigns demanding that more public facilities should be provided, so that parents can access them easily.The objective of this paper is to analyze households' preference for childcare modes and to estimate the excess demand for public childcare facilities in Korea. A challenge in the empirical analysis is that only a fraction of the demand for public facilities is observed when there is queuing for public facilities due to limited availability. In other words, what is observed in the data is the capacity of public facilities instead of the true demand for public facilities in the presence of excess demand. Therefore, the standard choice model will underestimate the demand for public facilities. In order to deal with the partial observability of the demand, we develop a multinomial logit model with partial observability (hereafter, the PO-logit model) by ad...

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“…In een studie die gevoerd werd in Brussel, bleek de organisatie van wachtlijsten voor de kinderopvang ook effecten te hebben op de sociale selectie van de ingeschrevenen (LORANT, 1996a, b). Verder werd ook al aangetoond dat in België de sociale ongelijkheid in het gebruik uitgesprokener was naarmate het tekort aan opvangplaatsen in de woonplaats groter was (FARFAN-PORTET, 2010 12. Er ligt hier een belangrijke uitdaging.…”

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De Brusselse demografische groei en de ongelijke toegang tot de kleuterschool

Humblet¹

2016

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Access to Childcare Services: The Role of Demand and Supply-Side Policies

Abstract: Childcare, Welfare state, Policy instruments, Subsidies,

Cited by 24 publications

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An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China

An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China

How long is the queuing for public childcare facilities in Korea? An empirical analysis of Korean households' childcare mode choice with the limited availability of public childcare facilities

De Brusselse demografische groei en de ongelijke toegang tot de kleuterschool

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