Taxes and transfers: A new look at the marriage penalty

National Tax Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-202

  Dickert Conlin, Stacy ^a   Houser, Scott ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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