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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling

A Simple Model with Application to Brazil

Rodrigo R. Soares, Diana Kruger and Matias Berthelon
Journal of Human Resources, January 2012, 47 (1) 1-31; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.47.1.1
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