What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth among U.S. Households?
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- B. Douglas Bernheim & Jonathan Skinner & Steven Weinberg, 1997. "What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?," NBER Working Papers 6227, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- B. Douglas Bernheim & Jonathan Skinner & Steven Weinberg, 1997. "What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?," Working Papers 97035, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
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- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
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