Fertility and the personal exemption: Comment

American Economic Review

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1616-1628

  Crump, Richard ^a   Shah Goda, Gopi ^b   Mumford, Kevin J ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79959894907     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.4.1616     Document Type: Article

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