Investing in children: Public commitment in twenty-one industrialized countries

Social Service Review

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-263

  Gabel, Shirley Gatenio ^a   Kamerman, Sheila B ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 33745923832     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502783     Document Type: Article

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