Volume 38 - Article 59 | Pages 1815–1842
The effects of family and location on wealth: A longitudinal study of the US North, 1850–1870
By Alice Kasakoff, Andrew Lawson, Purbasha Dasgupta, Michael DuBois, Stephen Feetham
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