Fertility and female labor supply in Latin America: New causal evidence

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 565-573

  Cruces, Guillermo ^a   Galiani, Sebastian ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Causality; Childbearing and female labor supply in developing countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247263758     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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