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Income Transfers and the Economic Status of the Elderly

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  • Sheldon Danziger
  • Jacques Van der Gaag
  • Eugene Smolensky

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  • Sheldon Danziger & Jacques Van der Gaag & Eugene Smolensky, 1984. "Income Transfers and the Economic Status of the Elderly," NBER Chapters, in: Economic Transfers in the United States, pages 239-282, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. R. D. Plotnick & E. Smolensky & E. Evenhouse & S. Reilly, "undated". "The Twentieth Century Record of Inequality and Poverty in the United States," Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 1166-98, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty.
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    3. Disney, Richard & Whitehouse, Edward, 2001. "Cross-country comparisons of pensioners’ incomes," MPRA Paper 16345, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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