Abstract
The price of a service or product is the actual amount paid by the consumer and reflects the cost of manufacture, distribution, and marketing, as well as the profit for each business involved. Unlike soap, child care services are usually priced below their real costs. How can providers do this and still serve their consumers?
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Alice Whiren, Laura Stein and Marjorie Kostelnik are in the Department of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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Whiren, A., Stein, L. & Kostelnik, M. The cost of it all. Early Childhood Educ J 12, 33–35 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623096
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