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Online Appendix to "Identifying Agent's Information Sets: an Application to a Lifecycle Model of Schooling, Consumption, and Labor Supply"

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  • Salvador Navarro

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    (University of Chicago)

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Online appendix for the Review of Economic Dynamics article

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  • Salvador Navarro & Jin Zhou, 2017. "Online Appendix to "Identifying Agent's Information Sets: an Application to a Lifecycle Model of Schooling, Consumption, and Labor Supply"," Online Appendices 16-155, Review of Economic Dynamics.
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