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Long-Run Impacts of Early Child Health and Family Planning on Labor and Migration Outcomes*

Tania Barham, Randall Kuhn and Patrick S. Turner
Published online before print December 11, 2023, 0322-12209R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0322-12209R2
Tania Barham
†Tania Barham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and can be reached at .
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‡Randall Kuhn is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health.
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Patrick S. Turner
§Patrick S. Turner is an Assistant Research Professor in the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities and the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.
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