Is There a Retirement-Savings Puzzle?

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 769-788

  Banks, James ^a   Blundell, Richard ^a,b   Tanner, Sarah ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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