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Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program

Bhashkar Mazumder, Maria Fernanda Rosales-Rueda and Margaret Triyana
Published online before print June 09, 2021, 0720-11059R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.59.2.0720-11059R1

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Bhashkar Mazumder, Maria Fernanda Rosales-Rueda, Margaret Triyana
Journal of Human Resources Jun 2021, 0720-11059R1; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.59.2.0720-11059R1
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