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The Family Gap in Pay: New Evidence for 1967 to 2013
Ipshita Pal, Jane Waldfogel
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 104-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.04
Ipshita Pal
aRecent PhD graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work and fellow of the Columbia Population Research Center
Jane Waldfogel
bCompton Foundation Centennial Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work and visiting professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics

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