Growing up in Australia: The longitudinal study of Australian children: A valuable new data source for economists

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 367-376

  Gray, Matthew ^a   Smart, Diana ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY STUDIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70149092758     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2009.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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