The ticket to easy street? The financial consequences of winning the lottery

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 961-969

  Hankins, Scott ^a   Hoekstra, Mark ^b   Skiba, Paige Marta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80053945007     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00114     Document Type: Article

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