What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
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What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.4.988