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The Effects of Public Quality Ratings on Parents’ Early Childhood Program Preferences

A study by Lindsay Weixler, Jane Arnold Lincove, Matthew Larsen, and Catherine Balfe examines the effects of public quality ratings on parents' early childhood program preferences.

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The Effects of Public Quality Ratings on Parents’ Early Childhood Program Preferences

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by Lindsay Weixler, Jane Arnold Lincove, Matthew Larsen, Catherine Balfe

In this study, Lind­say Weixler, Jane Arnold Lin­cove, Matthew Larsen, and Cather­ine Balfe exam­ine how pub­lic qual­i­ty rat­ings for ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion pro­grams influ­ence fam­i­lies’ choic­es in New Orleans. To do so, they com­pare how fam­i­lies ranked their pre­ferred pro­grams in the city’s cen­tral­ized enroll­ment appli­ca­tion in years when qual­i­ty mea­sures were dif­fi­cult for par­ents to access ver­sus years when infor­ma­tion was more read­i­ly available.

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