Health, income, and inequality

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 523-544

  Mullahy, John ^a   Robert, Stephanie ^a   Wolfe, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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