Trends in Children's attainments and their determinants as family income inequality has increased

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 149-188

  Haveman, Robert ^a   Sandefur, Gary ^a   Wolfe, Barbara ^a   Voyer, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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