Dr. Gordon Cleveland is an Economist in the Department of Management at University of Toronto Scarborough and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. He has devoted his research career as an economist to analyzing the economics of early childhood education. With co-authors, he has studied the costs and benefits of universal good-quality child care services in Canada, the financing of child care systems in OECD countries, the effect of child care costs on mothers’ employment, the determinants of the wages of child care workers, the determinants of quality in early childhood care services, and the impact of nonprofit status on the production of quality in child care. He is currently a collaborating investigator on a longitudinal study of Australian children and their early education and care experiences.