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Longevity and the Life Cycle

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  • Zsolt Becsi

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Louisiana State University in its series Departmental Working Papers with number 2001-12.

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Date of creation: Feb 2001
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  1. James Carey, 1997. "What demographers can learn from fruit fly actuarial models and biology," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 34(1), pages 17-30, February.
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Cited by:

  1. Weichun Chen & Merwan Engineer & Ian King, 2007. "Choosing Longevity with Overlapping Generations," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 1002, The University of Melbourne.
  2. Chen Weichun & Engineer Merwan H & King Ian P, 2008. "Choosing Longevity with Overlapping Generations: To Be or Not to Be in Diamond's Model," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-39, February.

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