Does fertility decrease household consumption?
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.26
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fertility; Indonesia; poverty dynamics; consumption; equivalence scale;All these keywords.
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- J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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