Volume 38 - Article 58 | Pages 1777–1814  

Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents

By Sarah Reynolds, Lia Fernald, Julianna Deardorff, Jere Behrman

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