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Health Shocks and Social Drift: Examining the Relationship Between Acute Illness and Family Wealth

Jason Thompson, Dalton Conley
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2016, 2 (6) 153-171; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.08
Jason Thompson
aDoctoral candidate in sociology at New York University
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bHenry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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