Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States
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- Hazem Alshaikhmubarak & R. Richard Geddes & Shoshana Amyra Grossbard & Shoshana Grossbard, 2017. "Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States," CESifo Working Paper Series 6471, CESifo.
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