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1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

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Question 104

Extract C states that 'Universal state-funded preschool education will help give every young child a fair start in life, lifting maternal employment rates and boosting long-term economic productivity.'

Using your economic knowledge, assess whether the government should provide fully-subsidised early years childcare for all, some, or no preschool-aged children.

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1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

378 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets, covering 1.8.1 How markets and prices allocate resources, 1.8.2 The meaning of market failure, 1.8.3 Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods, 1.8.4 Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production, 1.8.5 Merit and demerit goods, 1.8.6 Market imperfections, 1.8.7 Competition policy (A-level only), 1.8.8 Public ownership, privatisation, regulation and deregulation of markets (A-level only), 1.8.9 Government intervention in markets, and 1.8.10 Government failure. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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