Recent legislation may substantially expand federal assistance in paying for child care. This paper examines the potential effects of three aspects of federal assistance-reducing child care price (through vouchers or grants to providers), improving its quality (through incentives or regulation),...

In Hofferth and Wissoker (1992) we estimated the effects of price and quality on mode of child care chosen. We found large negative effects of price and quality on choice. This paper presents a revised version of our original model. The new results suggest negative price effects which are...