"Easing the Shortage" in China: An Economic View on the Early Childhood Education and Care

DOI

10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.101How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Preschool Education, Early Childhood Intervention, Mechanism Design, Supply Side.

Abstract

The mismatch of the demand side and the supply side in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector has been a recurring pattern in China for a long time. As another baby boom is looming on the horizon, "Easing the Shortage" is an urgent need. By describing the ratio of the capital investment in China, the structure within the government educational expeditures, and the ratio of public-private facilities, this article makes a different argument that the ideas of the local officials, the inter-governmental relationships and the incentive mechanism design are the driving force of the development. The countermeasures are the more aggressive intervention policies, a scientific mechanism design, and a regulatory reform of the private sector in ECEC.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lei Guo
AU  - Run-Yu Li
AU  - Hong Liu
PY  - 2018/05
DA  - 2018/05
TI  - "Easing the Shortage" in China: An Economic View on the Early Childhood Education and Care
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 574
EP  - 578
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.101
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