Estimating Costs of Children from Micro-Unit Records: A New Procedure Applied to Australian Data

Journal of Quantitative Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-120

  Griffiths, William E ^a   Valenzuela, M A Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84896710939     PISSN: 09711554     EISSN: 23641045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03404596     Document Type: Article

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