Looking at the "population problem" through the prism of heterogeneity: Welfare and policy analyses

International Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 799-835

  Fan, C Simon ^b   Stark, Oded ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b University of Bonn ^*

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EID: 48249112575     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: 14682354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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