The Willingness-to-Pay for Work/Family Policies: A Study of Teachers

Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values (values for those who rely on them), but also, based on a particular n...

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Published in:Industrial & labor relations review 2001-10, Vol.55 (1), p.22-41
Main Authors: Drago, Robert, Costanza, David, Caplan, Robert, Brubaker, Tanya, Cloud, Darnell, Harris, Naomi, Kashian, Russell, Riggs, T. Lynn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child care
Childbirth
Community information services
Education
Elementary Education
Elementary School Teachers
Elementary Schools
Employed Women
Employee Attitudes
Employee benefits
Employees
Employers
Employment
Employment Practices
Environmental policy
Evidence
Expectation
Families & family life
Family Environment
Family Policy
Family Role
Family Work Relationship
Flexible Scheduling
Industrial relations
Labor management relations
Labor Policy
Labor Relations
Maternity & paternity leaves
Officials and employees
Payroll deductions
Policy Implementation
Public expenditure
Public opinion
Referral
Research Methodology
Retirement Benefits
Schools
Social policy
Statistical analysis
Statistical median
Statistical significance
Studies
Taxation
Teacher Attitudes
Teachers
Teaching Methods
United States
United States environmental policy
Valuation methods
Values
Wages
Wages & salaries
Welfare
Willingness to pay
Work environment
Work life programs
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Summary:Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values (values for those who rely on them), but also, based on a particular norm of social justice, "need" values (values received by all individuals, regardless of expectations of direct benefit). Combining the median voter model with the contingent valuation method, which was designed to measure the willingness-to-pay for environmental goods such as national parks, the authors capture the willingness-to-pay for seven distinct work/family policies within a sample of 343 public, elementary school teachers. The results suggest that referenda to initiate work/ family policies in exchange for payroll deductions from teachers would pass, depending on the specific deduction. Even respondents with no expectation of direct benefit may place a positive value on the policies, consistent with the notion of "need" values.
ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/001979390105500102