Linkages among welfare, food assistance programmes and labour supply: Evidence from the survey of programme dynamics

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1099-1113

  Huffman, Sonya Kostova ^a   Jensen, Helen H ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AID; LABOR SUPPLY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 21344445237     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500109126     Document Type: Article

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