Consumption over the life cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey data

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 552-565

  Fernández Villaverde, Jesús ^a   Krueger, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 34548633745     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.89.3.552     Document Type: Review

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