The Wealth and Poverty of Widows: Assets Before and After the Husband's Death
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Copyright 1989
ISBN 0226902951
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Copy CitationMichael D. Hurd and David A. Wise, The Economics of Aging (University of Chicago Press, 1989), chap. 6, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economics-aging/wealth-and-poverty-widows-assets-and-after-husbands-death.
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