Socio-economic status and health: Evidence from the ECHP

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Cantarero, David ^a   Pascual, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

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