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The inverted-U: what does it mean?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Gene M. Grossman
Affiliation:
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Alan B. Krueger
Affiliation:
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

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Commentary
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Copyright © 1996, Cambridge University Press

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