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I appreciate the research assistance of Suchittra Chamnivichorn and the comments received from Carmel U. Chiswick, Donald Cox, Marianne Ferber and Evelyn Lehrer and at seminars at Queens University, Stanford University, University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Illinois at Chicago. This paper was presented at a joint session of the annual meetings of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Boston, December 1985. A condensed version of parts of this paper is to be published in theReview of Economics and Statistics.

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Chiswick, B.R. Labor supply and investment in child quality: a study of jewish and non-jewish women. Cont Jewry 9, 35–61 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02967921

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