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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

  • Janet Currie
American Economic Review
vol. 101, no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 1–22)
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Citation

Currie, Janet. 2011. "Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences." American Economic Review 101 (3): 1–22. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.1

JEL Classification

  • D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
  • J15 Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination