Chapter 5 Intergenerational and interhousehold economic links

Handbook of Population and Family Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 1997, Pages 189-238

  Laitner, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 77956762237     PISSN: 1574003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80022-0     Document Type: Review

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