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Lynn M. Mulkey, Robert L. Crain, Alexander J. C. Harrington, One-Parent Households and Achievement: Economic and Behavioral Explanations of a Small Effect, Sociology of Education, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 48-65
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