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Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

John Knight Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Li Shi Department of Economics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Deng Quheng Department of Economics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Pages 1786-1805 | Accepted 18 Jan 2010, Published online: 10 Jan 2011

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