Why Does Spousal Education Matter for Earnings? Assortative Mating and Cross‐Productivity
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Why Does Spousal Education Matter for Earnings? Assortative Mating and Cross‐Productivity Author(s): Chong Huang, Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, and Junsen Zhang Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2009), pp. 633-652 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/644746 . Accessed: 28/08/2014 19:16
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