Chapter 6 The cost of children and the use of demographic variables in consumer demand

Handbook of Population and Family Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 1997, Pages 241-273

  Van Praag, Bernard M S ^a   Warnaar, Marcel F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b National Institute for Family Finance Information   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77956787473     PISSN: 1574003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80023-2     Document Type: Review

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