Poverty, welfare reform, and children's achievement

Social Class, Poverty and Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 49-75

  Duncan, Greg J ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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