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We are indebted to Barry Chiswick, Robert Mare, and three anonymous referees for many helpful suggestions on an earlier draft of this comment.
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Lehrer, E.L., Grossbard-Shechtman, S. & Leasure, J.W. Comment on “a theory of the value of children”. Demography 33, 133–136 (1996). https://doi.org/10.2307/2061718
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