Household Saving: Micro Theories and Micro Facts

Journal of Economic Literature

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1797-1855

  Browning, Martin ^a   Lusardi, Annamaria ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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