Is there a 'heat-or-eat' trade-off in the UK?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 281-294

  Beatty, Timothy K M ^a   Blow, Laura ^b   Crossley, Thomas F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold weather; Heat or eat; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891902092     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12013     Document Type: Article

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