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Testing the External Effect of Household Behavior

The Case of the Demand for Children

Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang
Journal of Human Resources, October 2009, 44 (4) 890-915; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.44.4.890
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