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  • Michael D. Hurd and David A. Wise, The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan (University of Chicago Press, 1996), chap. 13, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economic-effects-aging-united-states-and-japan/changing-social-security-survivorship-benefits-and-poverty-widows.

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