Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI:10.1017/s0047279423000314

Vincent Chandler, M. Dilmaghani

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Abstract

Since 1997, the Canadian province of Quebec has put in place a heavily subsidized universal childcare program for all children under the school age. The present paper examines how the level of competition among individual providers associates with the quality of childcare in Quebec. The quality of childcare is measured by the number of violations and penalties recorded in the inspections conducted by the Quebec Ministry of Family Affairs. The analysis indicates that the intensity of parental competition for daycare spots, as opposed to childcare centres’ competition to attract parents, negatively associates with the quality of childcare. Critically, this association is mainly driven by less affluent neighbourhoods. In addition, these associations are found to be stronger for more serious violations. The policy implications for both childcare quality and childcare equality are discussed.

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竞争与儿童保育质量：来自魁北克的证据

自1997年以来，加拿大魁北克省为所有学龄以下儿童实施了一项由大量补贴的全民托儿计划。本文研究了个体提供者之间的竞争水平与魁北克儿童保育质量的关系。儿童保育的质量是根据魁北克家庭事务部进行的检查中记录的违规行为和处罚数量来衡量的。分析表明，与儿童保育中心吸引父母的竞争相比，父母对日托场所的竞争强度与儿童保育质量呈负相关。至关重要的是，这种关联主要是由不太富裕的社区推动的。此外，对于更严重的违法行为，这些关联性更强。讨论了对儿童保育质量和儿童保育平等的政策影响。

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Journal of Social Policy Multiple-

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4.40

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Social Policy carries high quality articles on all aspects of social policy in an international context. It places particular emphasis upon articles which seek to contribute to debates on the future direction of social policy, to present new empirical data, to advance theories, or to analyse issues in the making and implementation of social policies. The Journal of Social Policy is part of the "Social Policy Package", which also includes Social Policy and Society and the Social Policy Digest. An online resource, the Social Policy Digest, was launched in 2003. The Digest provides a regularly up-dated, fully searchable, summary of policy developments and research findings across the whole range of social policy.