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See the future by looking at the past: predicting divorce with premarital earnings

Johanna Åström Department of Economics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden
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Robert A. Nakosteen Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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Olle Westerlund Department of Economics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael A. Zimmer Department of Economics, University of Evansville, 800 Lincoln Ave, Evansville, IN, 47714, USA
Pages 997-1000 | Published online: 17 Feb 2011

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