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Does Your Home Make You Wealthy?
Alexandra Killewald, Brielle Bryan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2016, 2 (6) 110-128; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.06
Alexandra Killewald
aProfessor of sociology at Harvard University
Brielle Bryan
bDoctoral student in sociology and social policy at Harvard University

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