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Marianne P. Bitler, Annie Laurie Hines, Marianne Page
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 43-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.03
Marianne P. Bitler
aProfessor of economics at the University of California, Davis, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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Annie Laurie Hines
bGraduate student in economics at the University of California, Davis
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Marianne Page
cProfessor of economics and director of the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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    Figure A1. Distribution of Universal Child Benefit by Marital Status, Single Household Head
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    • FAMILY INCOME AND CHILDREN’S SHORT- AND LONG-TERM WELL-BEING
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