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

William Horrace, Peter Schmidt and A-D Witte

Working Papers from Wellesley College - Department of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: CHILD CARE; STATISTICAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C51 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1996
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