Earnings, Consumption and life cycle choices

Handbook of Labor Economics

Volumn 4, Issue PART B, 2011, Pages 773-854

  Meghir, Costas ^a,b,c   Pistaferri, Luigi ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IFS and IZA ^*  (Spain)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Income dynamics; Life cycle; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953111257     PISSN: 15734463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(11)02407-5     Document Type: Book

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