Economics and obesity

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Mavromaras, Kostas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; OBESITY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 42449093291     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2008.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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