Wealth effects, incentives, and productivity

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 116-133

  Mookherjee, Dilip ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN POLICY; INCENTIVES; INCOME EFFECTS; WEALTH LEVEL;

EID: 0031405914     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00009     Document Type: Article

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