The short-term mortality consequences of income receipt

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1410-1424

  Evans, William N ^a,b   Moore, Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Income; Liquidity constraints; Mortality; Permanent income hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055156317     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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