Beyond single mothers: Cohabitation and marriage in the AFDC program
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Marriage penalties , marriage , and cohabitation
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Preface The authors are very grateful to the Nuffield Foundation for supporting this work as part of a wider project, 'Births out of Wedlock and Cognitive and Social Development throughout Childhood: A Quantitative Analysis' (grant number CPF/37467). The Nuffield Foundation is an endowed charitable trust that aims to improve social well-being in the widest sense. It funds research and innovatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/3004035