Measuring living standards with proxy variables

Demography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 155-174

  Montgomery, Mark R ^a,c   Gragnolati, Michele ^d   Burke, Kathleen A ^b   Paredes, Edmundo ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0034185504     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648118     Document Type: Article

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