Access to wealth among older workers in the 1990s and how it is distributed: Data from the health and retirement study

Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 74-132

  Burkhauser, Richard V ^a   Weathers, Robert R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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