The impact of child care subsidies on single mothers' work effort

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 699-711

  Crawford, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 33646686390     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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