Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science

Perspectives on Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 403-413

  Blattman, Christopher ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85011476725     PISSN: 15375927     EISSN: 15410986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592712000746     Document Type: Review

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