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John Iceland, Kathleen Short, Thesia I. Garner, David Johnson, Are Children Worse off?: Evaluating Well-Being Using a New (And Improved) Measure of Poverty, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Spring, 2001), pp. 398-412
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