The effects of economic and population growth on national saving and inequality

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-114

  Deaton, Angus S ^a   Paxson, Christina H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME INEQUALITY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; NATIONAL SAVINGS; POPULATION GROWTH; SAVINGS BEHAVIOUR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECONOMICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAIWAN; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

TAIWAN; THAILAND; UK; USA;

EID: 0031062280     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061662     Document Type: Article

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