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The Impact of Social Security and Other Factors on the Distribution of Wealth

In: The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform

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Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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This chapter was published in: Jagadeesh Gokhale & Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, , pages 85-114, 2002.

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Martin Feldstein & Jeffrey B. Liebman, 2002. "The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number feld02-1.
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  1. Jeffrey R. Brown & Courtney C. Coile & Scott J. Weisbenner, 2006. "The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement," NBER Working Papers 12386, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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