I Was Only Nineteen, 45Years Ago: What Can we Learn from Australia's Conscription Lotteries?

Economic Record

Volumn 88, Issue 282, 2012, Pages 351-371

  Siminski, Peter ^a   Ville, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAMBLING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84866267254     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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