Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 450-477

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Evans, William N ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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