High-quality early care and education (ECE) programs promote positive child outcomes,
allow parents to work, and contribute to the local economy. Although extant research takes …

In this important new book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her colleagues focus on the more than
2 million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children …

The meaning of childcare services has long been contested. It has been breathtakingly
malleable—from a nineteenth-century stigmatized welfare service to twentieth-century …

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

Massive job losses in the United States, over eight million since the onset of the “Great
Recession,” call for job creation measures through fiscal expansion. In this paper we …

This chapter examines how the previously distinct worlds of early childhood education
(ECE) and K-12 public school education are being drawn together through the recent and …

Although the final demand‐oriented export base paradigm dominates economic
development theory and practice, its usefulness is increasingly questioned because of the …

Regional economic developers typically use input-output modeling to compare the linkage
effects of different targets for economic development policy. Using input-output models for all …

Recently, a series of popular economics “Invest in Kids”(IIK) reports in the United States has
called for increased investment in children's early education. These national reports …

Teoria ekonomii rozwija się od ponad 200 lat. W tym czasie powstały w jej ramach liczne
szkoły, które współcześnie składają się na dwa nurty dyscypliny. Pierwszy z nich można …