Racial-ethnic differences in subjective survival expectations for the retirement years

Research on Aging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 688-709

  Bulanda, Jennifer Roebuck ^a   Zhang, Zhenmei ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Race; Subjective survival expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350132608     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027509343533     Document Type: Article

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