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Reassessing the Evidence on the Rising Costs of Child Care

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In this podcast, Chris Herbst of Arizona State University discusses his research on changes in the cost of child care in the United States in recent decades. Despite reports of skyrocketing child care costs, Herbst finds that child care costs have been essentially flat since around 2000 and that there has been a noticeable divergence in the quality of child care that low- and high-income parents purchase for their children. Music is from "Test Drive" by Zapac, used under Creative Commons license.

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