Household wealth, public consumption and economic well-being in the United States

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1073-1090

  Wolff, Edward N ^a,b   Zacharias, Ajit ^a   Caner, Asena ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Household wealth; Inequality; Living standards; Public consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844472516     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bei076     Document Type: Article

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