Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation
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Keywords
social experimentation; vouchers; daycare use; labor force participation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2007-09-16 (Experimental Economics)
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