Historical note on height and parental consumption decisions

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-283

  Schneider, Ryan ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Height

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306925     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00723-7     Document Type: Article

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