Ohio Economic Experts Panel

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November 24, 2025: Public Child Care

Access to affordable childcare in Ohio is limited. Publicly funded childcare is available to low-income families, but private childcare quickly becomes a large proportion of household spending. Lack of affordable childcare can have rippling impacts to employment, household stress, and the state’s economy.

Question A: Work requirements for publicly funded child care will reduce unemployment rates.

Question B: The Child Care Cred affordability program will improve childhood educational outcomes in Ohio.

Question C: The Child Care Cred affordability program will increase labor force participation rates among parents.

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Goal: Policymakers need information from experts to craft policy that is effective, efficient, and equitable. The Ohio Economic Experts Panel is a tool for promoting better policy outcomes by providing policymakers, policy influencers, and the public with the informed opinions of Ohio’s leading economists.

About: The Ohio Economic Experts Panel consists of over 40 economists from colleges and universities throughout the state of Ohio. Panelists answer monthly questions of relevance to state policy indicating the degree to which they agree or disagree with a policy question and their confidence in their answer based on available evidence.

The Ohio Economic Experts Panel is a social bottom line service of Scioto Analysis, a public policy analysis firm based in Columbus, Ohio.

Suggest Questions : If you would like to suggest a question for the Ohio Economic Experts Panel, please email it to michael@sciotoanalysis.com. Questions most likely to be chosen will be those posed as agree/disagree propositions.

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