Consumption over the life cycle: How different is housing?

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 423-443

  Yang, Fang ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Distribution; Housing; Life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349135984     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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