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Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families

Zachary Parolin, Christina J. Cross, Rourke O’Brien
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2023, 9 (5) 56-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.03
Zachary Parolin
aAssistant professor of social policy at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy
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Christina J. Cross
bAssistant professor of sociology at Harvard University, United States
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cAssistant professor of sociology at Yale University, United States
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