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We are grateful to Keith Ericson, Jim Rebitzer, Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, and seminar participants at Lehigh University, Purdue University, Stanford University, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, the University of San Diego, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the CERS Institute of Economics for useful feedback. Amanda Stiebris provided superb research assistance. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30AG012810 through the National Bureau of Economic Research Center for Aging and Health Research. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, nor those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank, nor the governments they represent, nor the National Bureau of Economic Research.