Spending patterns in the older population

The Aging Consumer: Perspectives From Psychology and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-49

  Hurd, Michael D ^a   Rohwedder, Susann ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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