Baby booms and drug busts: Trends in youth drug use in the United States, 1975-2000

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1481-1512

  Jacobson, Mireille ^a  

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EID: 10644221037     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0033553042476125     Document Type: Review

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