Calculating a price index for families with children: Implications for measuring trends in child poverty rates

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-233

  Idson, Todd ^a   Miller, Cynthia ^a  

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EID: 0040318389     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1999.tb00329.x     Document Type: Article

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