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The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances Among the Affluent

In: The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth

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Michael D. Hurd
B. Gabriela Mundaca

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This chapter was published in: Michael D. Hurd & B. Gabriela Mundaca The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth, , pages 737-764, 1989.

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Robert E. Lipsey & Helen Stone Tice, 1989. "The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number lips89-1.
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