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Original Articles

EFFECTS OF PARENTAL LEAVE AND WORK HOURS ON FATHERS’ INVOLVEMENT WITH THEIR BABIES

Evidence from the millennium cohort study

Pages 409-426 | Published online: 07 Nov 2007

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