Is the correlation in welfare participation across generations spurious?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-25

  Gottschalk, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergenerational; Spurious correlation; Unobservables; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030489312     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(96)01585-X     Document Type: Article

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