Child Well-Being among W-2 Families
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In 1999 the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created a project on State-Level Child Outcomes to encourage and assist states in using administrative data to expand their child outcome measures and make them comparable across states. Unfortunately, research using these samples is limited by small sample sizes. Chapter 9 Child Well-Being among W-2 Families
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