Consumption inequality and family labor supply

American Economic Review

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 387-435

  Blundell, Richard ^a   Pistaferri, Luigi ^b,c   Saporta Eksten, Itay ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84960157895     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20121549     Document Type: Article

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