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Changing the Price of Marriage

Evidence from Blood Test Requirements

Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi and Joseph Price
Journal of Human Resources, July 2011, 46 (3) 539-567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.3.539
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