Does non-profit child care have a quality advantage, economists ask.Toronto -- Do non-profit child care centres produce child care of a higher quality than for-profit centre? The evidence is not clear according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a paper presented by Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky of the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, . The paper, The Nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. advantage; producing quality in thick and thin child care markets, is a review of research on the issue of quality from the economists' perspective. "Nonprofit status has a moderately positive impact on quality, but statistically insignificant when all controls are included. The authors speculate that this advantage should only appear where demand is sufficiently "thick" to permit a quality differentiation strategy to be financially viable for nonprofits. However, when we account for the unobserved heterogeneity het·er·o·ge·ne·i·ty n. The quality or state of being heterogeneous. heterogeneity the state of being heterogeneous. and separate markets into "thick" and "thin", a strong nonprofit advantage is found in thick markets. |
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