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Booms, Busts, and Fertility

Testing the Becker Model Using Gender-Specific Labor Demand

Jessamyn Schaller
Journal of Human Resources, January 2016, 51 (1) 1-29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.51.1.1
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