Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 246-262

  Halliday, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 77649306818     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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