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Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States

Christopher S. Carpenter, Maxine J. Lee, Laura Nettuno
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2025, 11 (2) 65-85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.04
Christopher S. Carpenter
aE. Bronson Ingram University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
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Maxine J. Lee
bAssistant professor of economics at San Francisco State University, United States
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Laura Nettuno
cPhD student in economics at Vanderbilt University, United States
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