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Health and Income Variation – A Panel Data Study on the Developed and Less Developed Economies

I- Ming Chiu Department of Economics, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Tetsuji Yamada Department of Economics & Center for Children and Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, USA
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Chia-Ching Chen Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Health Sciences & Practice, New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA
Pages 305-318 | Received 12 Oct 2009, Accepted 07 May 2010, Published online: 22 Jul 2011

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