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Revising Our Thinking About the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool

Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick
Journal of Human Resources, July 2012, 47 (3) 583-612; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.47.3.583
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. A Brief Overview of the Decennial Census Data
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