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Marriage, Assets, and Savings

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Lupton, J.
Smith, J.P.

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This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Households distinguish principally along standard demographic lines -whether they marry, divorce, seperate or become widowed. To accomplish this goal, we rely on two household surveys with high quality wealth modules.

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Paper provided by RAND - Labor and Population Program in its series Papers with number 99-12.

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Length: 42 pages
Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: MARRIAGE ; SAVINGS ; HOUSEHOLD;

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J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth

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