Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?
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- Janice Compton & Robert A. Pollak, 2004. "Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas," NBER Working Papers 10918, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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