摘要：Most farnilies with children now make regular arrangements for child care when parents are employed. Farnilies choose from amongst available alternatives such as a child care centre, a neighbourhood sitter, a sitter who cornes into the child's home, care by one parent while the other works, or care by another relative. Economie theory provides oruy modest guidance to the determinants of this important dimension of child care choice. Certairuy, the effect of own-price should be negative for each child care option while the effect of priees of substitutes are positive. Quality and convenience, ceteris paribus, should also have positive effects on the probability of using a particular type of child care. Beyond these, economie theory gives way to intuition or observed empirieal regularities.
