Smoothing consumption by smoothing income: Hours-of-work responses to idiosyncratic agricultural shocks in Rural India

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-61

  Kochar, Anjini ^a  

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EID: 0033417710     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465399767923818     Document Type: Article

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