Child support and the economy

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-wage Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 338-365

  Cancian, Maria ^a   Meyer, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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