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  • Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise, Aging Issues in the United States and Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2001), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/aging-issues-united-states-and-japan/choice-chance-and-wealth-dispersion-retirement.

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