Ann Dryden Witte
Biographic Data
| ID | 4518817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Dryden Witte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann Dryden |
| FAMILY NAME | Witte |
| SIGNATURE | WITTE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Changing Policies, Changing Impacts
We examine the impact of increased child‐care funding on the employment and earnings of 4,399 current and former welfare families in Miami‐Dade County. We find that the dramatic increase in funding for child care during the early stages of welfare reform significantly increased the likelihood of employment for these welfare clients, even those with substantial barriers to employment. Our results also indicate that very low co‐payment rates may ha…
Childcare regulations
Estimating the Unmet Need for Services
In this article, we use a child‐care illustration to develop a concept of unmet need applicable to the human services and to demonstrate a systematic method of identifying the geographic areas where it may exist. First we catalog the licensed and regulated supply of child care and early childhood education services in Hampden County, Massachusetts. To ascertain the main factors that determine the supply, we estimate a series of reduced‐form equat…
A Map for You? Geographic Information Systems in the Social Services
This article introduces and illustrates the use of geographic information systems for practice, administration, and research in the social services. Our illustrations use 1996/97 child care licensing data for the Lowell/Framingham area of Massachusetts and resource and referral data from the Dade County/Greater Miami area of Florida. The article shows how the location and characteristics of service providers can be depicted on a map that can be m…
Influences on Neighborhood Supply of Child Care in Massachusetts
In examining the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and neighborhood supply of licensed child care in Massachusetts, we find a limited supply of center care, especially full‐day care, in low‐income neighborhoods. Although there is a better supply of family child‐care providers, it is nevertheless more limited than in higher income neighborhoods. The number of children ages 5 and under emerged as the most important factor determini…
Criminal Deterrence
We estimate the general deterrent effect of criminal justice resources on criminal behavior using panel data for a sample representative of young men in U.S. urban areas. Our data, which combine individual-level information on arrests and personal characteristics with aggregate information on criminal justice resources, allow us to obtain deterrence measures that reflect theoretical concepts and are of potential policy relevance. We find robust e…
Domestic Violence
In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women.Physical violence is viewed as both a source of direct gratification and as an instrument for controlling the victim's behavior.Our model is a Stackleberg type model in which the assailant maximizes expected utility subject to the stochastic reaction function of the victim.Our model is estimated by a bounded-influence regression technique because …
Cheating the Government
Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models
Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models
An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice
Socially optimal and equilibrium distributions of office activity
An Equilibrium Model of Office Location and Contact Patterns
In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model of office location, which explicitly considers the source of agglomeration economies and which sees firm location and contact patterns as jointly and endogenously determined. We solve the model explicitly for contact-benefit, facility-cost, and transport-cost functions representative of medium-sized US cities. The resulting rent functions are concave rather than convex as they are in most models of i…
Problems in Estimating the Optimal-Cost Prison Size
prison. We will discuss each of these criticisms in turn. Professor Kritzer points out that the major thrust of our findings is that the least expensive prison to operate is larger than small but smaller than gargantuan (p. 139). He feels that this point is obvious, being simply a reminder of the economies of and the diseconomies of excessive scale (p. 139). We disagree. Although basic and intermediate economics texts usually depict average cost …
Determinants of the Costs of Operating Large-Scale Prisons with Implications for the Cost of Correctional Standards
This paper explores the determinants of the costs of prisons. An economic model relates cost to output, input prices, and a number of variables controlling for differences in the type of outputs and inputs for each prison. Data from the federal prison system are used to estimate the model. Our results indicate that a minimum-cost prison would be quite large (1,000 to 1,600 inmates) and that the improvement of some correctional standards (e.g., si…
An exploration of the determinants of labor market performance for prison releasees
Employment in the manufacturing sector of developing economies
This article finds that the existence of elastic production functions and shifts in relative prices which make it profitable for companies to substitute capital for labour explained a large portion of the failure of manufacturing industries in Mexico and Peru to provide large scale employment opportunities even when their volume of output was expanding
Influences on Neighborhood Supply of Child Care in Massachusetts
In examining the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and neighborhood supply of licensed child care in Massachusetts, we find a limited supply of center care, especially full‐day care, in low‐income neighborhoods. Although there is a better supply of family child‐care providers, it is nevertheless more limited than in higher income neighborhoods. The number of children ages 5 and under emerged as the most important factor determini…
A Map for You? Geographic Information Systems in the Social Services
This article introduces and illustrates the use of geographic information systems for practice, administration, and research in the social services. Our illustrations use 1996/97 child care licensing data for the Lowell/Framingham area of Massachusetts and resource and referral data from the Dade County/Greater Miami area of Florida. The article shows how the location and characteristics of service providers can be depicted on a map that can be m…
Changing Policies, Changing Impacts
We examine the impact of increased child‐care funding on the employment and earnings of 4,399 current and former welfare families in Miami‐Dade County. We find that the dramatic increase in funding for child care during the early stages of welfare reform significantly increased the likelihood of employment for these welfare clients, even those with substantial barriers to employment. Our results also indicate that very low co‐payment rates may ha…
Cheating the Government
Socially optimal and equilibrium distributions of office activity
Estimating the Unmet Need for Services
In this article, we use a child‐care illustration to develop a concept of unmet need applicable to the human services and to demonstrate a systematic method of identifying the geographic areas where it may exist. First we catalog the licensed and regulated supply of child care and early childhood education services in Hampden County, Massachusetts. To ascertain the main factors that determine the supply, we estimate a series of reduced‐form equat…
Determinants of the Costs of Operating Large-Scale Prisons with Implications for the Cost of Correctional Standards
This paper explores the determinants of the costs of prisons. An economic model relates cost to output, input prices, and a number of variables controlling for differences in the type of outputs and inputs for each prison. Data from the federal prison system are used to estimate the model. Our results indicate that a minimum-cost prison would be quite large (1,000 to 1,600 inmates) and that the improvement of some correctional standards (e.g., si…
An exploration of the determinants of labor market performance for prison releasees
An Equilibrium Model of Office Location and Contact Patterns
In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model of office location, which explicitly considers the source of agglomeration economies and which sees firm location and contact patterns as jointly and endogenously determined. We solve the model explicitly for contact-benefit, facility-cost, and transport-cost functions representative of medium-sized US cities. The resulting rent functions are concave rather than convex as they are in most models of i…
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Childcare regulations
Employment in the manufacturing sector of developing economies
This article finds that the existence of elastic production functions and shifts in relative prices which make it profitable for companies to substitute capital for labour explained a large portion of the failure of manufacturing industries in Mexico and Peru to provide large scale employment opportunities even when their volume of output was expanding
An exploration of the determinants of labor market performance for prison releasees
Problems in Estimating the Optimal-Cost Prison Size
prison. We will discuss each of these criticisms in turn. Professor Kritzer points out that the major thrust of our findings is that the least expensive prison to operate is larger than small but smaller than gargantuan (p. 139). He feels that this point is obvious, being simply a reminder of the economies of and the diseconomies of excessive scale (p. 139). We disagree. Although basic and intermediate economics texts usually depict average cost …
Determinants of the Costs of Operating Large-Scale Prisons with Implications for the Cost of Correctional Standards
This paper explores the determinants of the costs of prisons. An economic model relates cost to output, input prices, and a number of variables controlling for differences in the type of outputs and inputs for each prison. Data from the federal prison system are used to estimate the model. Our results indicate that a minimum-cost prison would be quite large (1,000 to 1,600 inmates) and that the improvement of some correctional standards (e.g., si…
An Equilibrium Model of Office Location and Contact Patterns
In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model of office location, which explicitly considers the source of agglomeration economies and which sees firm location and contact patterns as jointly and endogenously determined. We solve the model explicitly for contact-benefit, facility-cost, and transport-cost functions representative of medium-sized US cities. The resulting rent functions are concave rather than convex as they are in most models of i…
Socially optimal and equilibrium distributions of office activity
An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice
Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models
Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models
Domestic Violence
In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women.Physical violence is viewed as both a source of direct gratification and as an instrument for controlling the victim's behavior.Our model is a Stackleberg type model in which the assailant maximizes expected utility subject to the stochastic reaction function of the victim.Our model is estimated by a bounded-influence regression technique because …
Cheating the Government
Criminal Deterrence
We estimate the general deterrent effect of criminal justice resources on criminal behavior using panel data for a sample representative of young men in U.S. urban areas. Our data, which combine individual-level information on arrests and personal characteristics with aggregate information on criminal justice resources, allow us to obtain deterrence measures that reflect theoretical concepts and are of potential policy relevance. We find robust e…
A Map for You? Geographic Information Systems in the Social Services
This article introduces and illustrates the use of geographic information systems for practice, administration, and research in the social services. Our illustrations use 1996/97 child care licensing data for the Lowell/Framingham area of Massachusetts and resource and referral data from the Dade County/Greater Miami area of Florida. The article shows how the location and characteristics of service providers can be depicted on a map that can be m…
Influences on Neighborhood Supply of Child Care in Massachusetts
In examining the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and neighborhood supply of licensed child care in Massachusetts, we find a limited supply of center care, especially full‐day care, in low‐income neighborhoods. Although there is a better supply of family child‐care providers, it is nevertheless more limited than in higher income neighborhoods. The number of children ages 5 and under emerged as the most important factor determini…
Childcare regulations
Estimating the Unmet Need for Services
In this article, we use a child‐care illustration to develop a concept of unmet need applicable to the human services and to demonstrate a systematic method of identifying the geographic areas where it may exist. First we catalog the licensed and regulated supply of child care and early childhood education services in Hampden County, Massachusetts. To ascertain the main factors that determine the supply, we estimate a series of reduced‐form equat…
Changing Policies, Changing Impacts
We examine the impact of increased child‐care funding on the employment and earnings of 4,399 current and former welfare families in Miami‐Dade County. We find that the dramatic increase in funding for child care during the early stages of welfare reform significantly increased the likelihood of employment for these welfare clients, even those with substantial barriers to employment. Our results also indicate that very low co‐payment rates may ha…
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Economics (16 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Child care (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)