Chapter 17 The economics of population aging

Handbook of Population and Family Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 1997, Pages 967-1014

  Weil, David N ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956754788     PISSN: 1574003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80009-8     Document Type: Review

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