Authors
Richard Blundell
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Costas Meghir
Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Christopher Heady
University of Kent
Paul Baker
Suggested citation
Baker, P et al. (1992). 'The working behaviour of young people in rural Cote d'Ivoire: evidence from the LSMS panel' (1992)
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