Household Composition and Brazilian Food Purchases: An Expenditure System Approach

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-345

  Agüero, Jorge M ^a   Gould, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0347604480     PISSN: 00083976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7976.2003.tb00179.x     Document Type: Article

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