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Estimating market Prices for Child Care : Sample Design Estimation and Accuracy

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Horrace, W
Schmidt, P
Witte, A-D

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The Family Support Act allows states to reimburse child care costs up to the 75th percentile of the local market price for child care. For the state of Massachusetts, we developed a sampling design that equalized the standard errors of the estimated percentiles across 65 distinct local markets.

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Paper provided by Wellesley College - Department of Economics in its series Papers with number 96-06.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: 1996
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Handle: RePEc:fth:wecoec:96-06

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Postal: U.S.A.; Wellesley College, Department of Economics. Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181
Web page: http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/
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Keywords: CHILD CARE STATISTICAL DATA STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Estimation

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