Getting the Smaller Picture: Small-Area Analysis of Public Expenditure Incidence and Deprivation in Three English Cities

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-267

  Bramley, Glen ^a   Evans, Martin ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347998473     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2000.tb00024.x     Document Type: Article

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