Cash-on-hand and competing models of intertemporal behavior: New evidence from the labor market

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1511-1560

  Card, David ^a   Chetty, Raj ^a   Weber, Andrea ^a  

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EID: 37249007150     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2007.122.4.1511     Document Type: Article

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