Earnings, Consumption and Lifecycle Choices

Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri

NBER Working Paper No. 15914
Issued in April 2010

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Prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. Thanks to Misha Dworsky and Itay Saporta for excellent research assistance, and to Giacomo De Giorgi, Mario Padula and Gianluca Violante for comments. Pistaferri's work on this chapter was partly funded from NIH/NIA under grant 1R01AG032029-01 and NSF under grant SES-0921689. Costas Meghir thanks the ESRC for funding under the Professorial Fellowship Scheme grant RES-051-27-0204 and under the ESRC centre at the IFS. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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