The impacts of household wealth on child development

Journal of Poverty

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-116

  Williams Shanks, Trina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset building; Child development; Income; PSID; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548357293     PISSN: 10875549     EISSN: 15407608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J134v11n02_05     Document Type: Article

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