A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty
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A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty Author(s): Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association San Diego, CA, January 3-5, 2004 (May, 2004), pp. 419-423 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592921 Accessed: 16/07/2009 06:49
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