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The Effects of State-Level Medicaid Coverage on Family Wealth

Margot Jackson, Chinyere Agbai, Emily Rauscher
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2021, 7 (3) 216-234; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.3.10
Margot Jackson
aAssociate professor of sociology at Brown University, United States
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Chinyere Agbai
bPhD student in sociology at Brown University, United States
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cAssociate professor of sociology at Brown University, United States
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