Assessing the effect of economic inequality

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 933-968

  Evans, William N ^a   Hout, Michael ^b   Mayer, Susan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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