Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle

Angus S. Deaton, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas & Christina Paxson
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Copyright 2002
ISBN 978-0-226-24106-7
Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform
Book: The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform
Book editors: Martin Feldstein & Jeffrey B. Liebman
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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