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Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2012

Christopher Blattman
Christopher Blattman
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Yale University. E-mail: [email protected]
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 403 - 413
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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