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Selection and Specialization in the Evolution of Marriage Earnings Gaps

Chinhui Juhn, Kristin McCue
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 237-269; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.09
Chinhui Juhn
aHenry Graham Professor of Economics at the University of Houston and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
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bPrincipal economist at the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau
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