Old-age security motives, labor markets, and farm family fertility in antebellum American
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- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Explorations in Economic History
- Vol. 25 (2) , 164-197
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4983(88)90015-0
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