Household choices and child development

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 137-185

  Del Boca, Daniela ^a   Flinn, Christopher ^b   Wiswall, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Household labour supply; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; INVESTMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; TIME ALLOCATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84893421054     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdt026     Document Type: Article

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