To have and to hold: An analysis of young adult debt

The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 231-258

  Chiteji, Ngina S ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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