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Title
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Publication Information
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2008 |
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WPS 08-02 |
Tang, Ning |
The More the Better?
Characteristics and Efficiency of 401(k) Investment Menus
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WPS 08-01 |
Volpp, Kevin G; John,
Leslie K; Troxel,
Andrea B; Norton,
Laurie; Fassbender,
Jennifer; and Loewenstein, George
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Weight Loss
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2007 |
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WPS 07-12 |
Park, Hyunjoon and Kyei, Pearl |
Literacy Gaps by Educational Attainment: A Comparative Study of 19 Countries
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WPS 07-11 |
Valeggia, Claudia and Lanza, Norberto A. |
Preliminary Demographic Analysis of a Toba Population in Transition in Northern Argentina
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WPS 07-10 |
Kohler, Iliana andPreston, Samuel |
Ethnic, Religious, and Socioeconomic Differentials in Bulgarian Mortality
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WPS 07-09 |
Huang, Rachel J; Muermann, Alexander; and Tzeng, Larry Y |
Hidden Regret and Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets
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WPS 07-08 |
Crimmins, Eileen M., Beth J. Soldo, Jung Ki Kim, and Dawn E. Alley |
Using Anthropometric Indicators for Mexicans in the United States and Mexico to Understand the Selection of Migrants and the "Hispanic Paradox" |
Social Biology 52(3-4):164-177, 2005. |
WPS 07-07 |
Kohler, Iliana V. and Beth J. Soldo |
Childhood Predictors of Late-Life Diabetes: The Case of Mexico |
Social Biology 52(3-4):112-131, 2005. |
WPS 07-06 |
Delavande, Adeline and Kohler, Hans-Peter |
Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
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WPS 07-05 |
Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; Pauly, Mark V. |
Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations
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WPS 07-04 |
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Behrman, Jere; and Watkins, Susan |
Social Networks, HIV/AIDS and Risk Per-ceptions |
Demography, 44(1), 1-33, 2007. |
WPS 07-03 |
Helleringer, Stéphane and Kohler, Hans-Peter |
Social Networks, Risk Perceptions and Changing Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS: New Evidence from a Longitudinal Study Using Fixed-Effect Estimation |
Population Studies, 59(3): 265-282, 2005. |
WPS 07-02 |
Shore, Stephen |
For Better, for Worse: Intra-household Risk-sharing over the Business Cycle
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WPS 07-01 |
Chao, Li-wei and Kohler, Hans-Peter |
The Behavioral Economics of Altruism, Reciprocity, and
Transfers within Families and
Rural Communities: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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2006 |
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WPS 06-14 |
Chang, Virginia W. and Diane S. Lauderdale
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Income Disparities in Body Mass Index and Obesity in the United States, 1971-2002 |
Archives of Internal Medicine, 165 (18):2122-2128, 2005.
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WPS 06-13 |
Soldo, Beth J; Mitchell, Olivia S; Tfaily, Rania; and McCabe, John F
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Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement
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WPS 06-12 |
Skog, Jeremy |
Who Knows What About Their Pensions?
Financial Literacy in the Chilean Individual Account
System
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WPS 06-11 |
Behrman, Jere R; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A; Soler-Hampejsek,
Erica; Behrman, Emily L; Martorell, Reynaldo; Ramirez-Zeal, Manuel; and Stein, Aryeh D.
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What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills?
Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and
Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
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WPS 06-10 |
Shore, Stephen H. |
The Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Volatility: Is Riskiness Inherited?
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WPS 06-09 |
Lucarelli, Claudio |
An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
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WPS 06-08 |
Muermann, Akexander and Volkman, Jacqueline M. |
Regret, Pride, and the Disposition Effect
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WPS 06-07 |
Schnittker, Jason |
When Mental Health Becomes Health: Age
and the Shifting Meaning of Self-Evaluations
of General Health
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The Milbank Quarterly, 83(3), 397-423, Sep 2005. |
WPS 06-06 |
Turra, Cassio M. and Elo, Irma T.
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The Impact of Salmon Bias on the Hispanic Mortality Advantage:
New Evidence from Social Security Data
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WPS 06-05 |
J.A. Long, K. Armstrong, V.W. Chang, Z. Chen, and J.P. Metlay |
Social Capital, Race, and Glucose Control
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WPS 06-04 |
Alberto Arenas de Mesa, David Bravo, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Petra E. Todd
With assistance from Andres Otero, Jeremy Skog, Javiera Vasquez, and Viviana Velez-Grajales |
The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25:
Lessons from the Social Protection Survey
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WPS 06-03 |
Sharon X. Xie, Douglas C. Ewbank, Jesse Chittams, Jason H.T. Karlawish, Steven E. Arnold, Christopher M. Clark
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Rate of Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease Measured by a Dementia Severity Rating Scale
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WPS 06-02 |
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Helleringer, Stéphane |
The structure of sexual networks and the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from
Likoma island (Malawi)
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AIDS, 21(17):2323–2332 |
WPS 06-01 |
Preston, Samuel; Wang, Haidong |
Sex Mortality Differentials in the United States:
The Role of Cohort Smoking Patterns
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2005 |
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WPS 05-12 |
Knaul, Felicia Marie; Frenk, Julio |
Health Insurance in Mexico: Achieving Universal Coverage Through Structural Reform
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Health Affairs, 24 (6): 1467-1476, 2005. |
WPS 05-11 |
Ross, Sara; Pagán, José; and Polsky, Daniel |
Mexican Migration to the U.S. and Access to Health Care
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WPS 05-10 |
Kohler. Iliana and Soldo, and Beth J. |
Childhood Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes in Late Life—Evidence from the Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
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WPS 05-09 |
Kohler, Iliana and Kohler, Hans-Peter |
Getting Married to Live Longer? Evidence on the Selection versus Protection Effect of Marriage Using Fixed-Effect Survival Models
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WPS 05-08 |
Elo, Irma; Martikainen, Pekka; and Smith, Kirsten |
Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality in Finland and the United States: The Role of Education and Income
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European Journal of Population, 22(2): 179-203, 2006. |
WPS 05-07 |
Bethencourt, Carlos and Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor |
On the Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows
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WPS 05-06 |
Knowles, John and Postlewaite, Andrew |
Do Children Learn to Save from Their Parents?
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WPS 05-05 |
Zhang, Donghui and Kao, Grace |
Living Arrangements and Changing Family Relationships of Chinese Immigrant Elderly
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WPS 05-04 |
Sochalski, Julie |
Impact of Geriatric Day Hospital Services on Inpatient Hospital Use
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WPS 05-03 |
Noël-Miller, Claire and Ewbank, Douglas |
A Methodology for Studying Child Mortality Differentials in Populations with Limited Death Registration.
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WPS 05-02 |
Pagán, José; Ross, Sara; Yau, Jeffrey; and Polsky, Daniel |
Self-medication and Health Insurance Coverage in Mexico
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WPS 05-01 |
Shore, Stephen and Sinai, Todd |
Commitment, Risk, and Consumption:
Do Birds of a Feather Have Bigger Nests?
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2004
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WPS 04-03
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Mataoanu, Anca
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Pension Supervision: Key Policy Issues from International Experience
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WPS 04-02
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Turra, Cassio M. and Olivia S. Mitchell
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The Impact of Health Status and Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures
on Annuity Valuation
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WPS 04-01
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Silverman, Dan and Olivia S. Mitchell
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Crime and Early Retirement Among Older Americans
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2003
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WPS 03-04
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Doctor, Henry V.
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Parental survival, living arrangements and school enrolment of
children in Malawi in the era of HIV/AIDS
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Journal of Social Development in Africa, 19 (1): 31-56,
2004.
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WPS 03-03
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Schnittker, Jason
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The Shifting Signification of Self-Rated Health
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WPS 03-02
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Doctor, Henry V. and Alexander A. Weinreb
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Estimation of AIDS Adult Mortality by Verbal Autopsy in Rural Malawi
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AIDS, 17 (17): 2509-2513, 2003.
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WPS 03-01
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Bracher, Michael, Gigi Santow, and Susan Cotts Watkins
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A Microsimulation Study of the Effects of Divorce and Remarriage
on Lifetime Risks of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
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2002
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WPS 02-08
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Mtika, Mike Mathambo and Henry V. Doctor
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Matriliny, Patriliny, and Wealth Flow Variations in Rural Malawi
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African Sociological Review, 6 (2): 71-98, 2002.
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WPS 02-07
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Weinreb, Alexander A.
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Lateral and vertical intergenerational exchange in rural Malawi
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology,
17 (2): 101-138, 2002.
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WPS 02-06
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Livingston, Gretchen and Paula England
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Cumulative Effects of Family Formation on Late-Life Income of Women
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WPS 02-05
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Guner, Nezih and Knowles, John
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Marital Instability and the Distribution of Wealth
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WPS 02-04
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Furstenberg, Frank
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From Teenage Mother to Middle-Age Matriarch: A Journey Between
Two Racial Stereotypes
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WPS 02-03
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Luke, Nancy
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Confronting the Myth of “Sugar Daddies”: Linking Age
and Economic Asymmetries and Risky Sexual Behavior in Urban Kenya
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WPS 02-02
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Luke, Nancy
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Widows and “Professional Inheritors”: Understanding AIDS
Risk Perceptions in Kenya
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WPS 02-01
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Schnittker, Jason
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Psychological Growth and Physical Decline: Illness and Depression
in Later Life
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2001
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WPS 01-03
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Khalfani, Akil Kokayi and Tukufu Zuberi
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Racial classification and the modern census in South Africa, 1911-1996
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Race and Society 4 (2): 161-176, 2001.
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WPS 01-02
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Fernandez, Raquel, Nezih Guner and John Knowles
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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of
Household Sorting and Inequality
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WPS 01-01
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Robbins, Jessica M. and Douglas C. Ewbank
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Dementia in Parkinson's Disease: Demographic models and estimates
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2000
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WPS 00-01
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Nicholson, Sean
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The Effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on
Medicare HMO Enrollment
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1998
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WPS 98-24
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Elo, Irma T. and Samuel H. Preston
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The Demography of the African-American Population: 1930-1990
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WPS 98-23
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Elo, Irma T.
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African-American Mortality and Fertility since 1935
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WPS 98-22
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Jacobs, Jerry A.
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Measuring Time at Work: An Assessment of the Accuracy of Self Reports
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Monthly Labor Review, 121 (12): 42-53, 1998.
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WPS 98-21
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Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson
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Toward Family Friendly, Gender-Equitable Work Week
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University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law,
1 (2): 457-472, 1998.
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WPS 98-20
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Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson
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Do Americans Feel Overworked? Comparing Actual and Ideal Working
Time
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In Work and Family: Research Informing Policy. Toby Parcel
and Daniel B. Cornfield, eds., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,
2000: 71-95.
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WPS 98-19
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Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson
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Who are the overworked Americans?
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Review of Social Economy, 56 (4): 442-459, 1998.
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WPS 98-18
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Behrman, Jere R. and Mark Rosenzweig
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In-law Resources and Distribution Within Marriage
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WPS 98-17
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Behrman, Jere R.
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Returns to Schooling and to Work Experience for Women and Men and
'Ability' Bias: Twins Estimates
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WPS 98-16
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Mitchell, Olivia S., Alan L. Gustman, Andrew A. Samwick, and Thomas
L. Steinmeier
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Evaluating Pension Entitlements
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In Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000: 309-326.
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WPS 98-15
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Mitchell, Olivia S., James Moore, and John Phillips
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Explaining Retirement Savings Shortfalls
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In Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000: 138-163.
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WPS 98-14
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Mitchell, Olivia S., John Geanakoplos, and Stephen P. Zeldes
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Social Security Money's Worth
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In Prospects for Social Security Reform. O.S.Mitchell, R.
Myers, and H. Young, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1999: 79-151.
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WPS 98-13
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Robin L. Lumsdaine
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New Developments in the Economic Analysis of Retirement
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In Handbook of Labor Economics. Orley Ashenfelter and David
Card, eds. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1999: 3261-3308.
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WPS 98-12
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Debra S. Dwyer
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Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Related
Measures Endogenous?
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Journal of Health Economics (18) 1999: 173-193.
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WPS 98-11
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Mitchell, Olivia S., John Geanakoplos, and Stephen P. Zeldes
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Would a Privatized Social Security System Really Pay a Higher Rate
of Return?
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In Framing the Social Security Debate. D. Arnold, M. Graetz,
and A. Munnell, eds. Brookings Institution, 1998: 137-157.
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WPS 98-10
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Mitchell, Olivia S.
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International Models for Pension Reform
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WPS 98-09
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Mitchell, Olivia S.
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Developments in Pensions
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In Handbook of Insurance. Georges Dionne, ed. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Boston, 2000: 873-899.
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WPS 98-08
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Mitchell, Olivia S.
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Insulating Old-Age Systems from Political Risk
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WPS 98-07
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and James F. Moore
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Projected Retirement Wealth and Savings Adequacy in the Health
and Retirement Study
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In Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000: 68-94.
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WPS 98-06
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Sana, Mariano and Douglas Massey
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Seeking Social Security: An Alternative Motivation for Mexico-U.S.
Migration
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WPS 98-05
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Dunn, Thomas A. and John W. Phillips
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The Division of Parental Financial Assets Among Adult Children
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WPS 98-04
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Phillips, John W.
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Intrafamily Resource Allocation: Joint Determination of Multiple
Transfer Outcomes.
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WPS 98-03
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Elo, Irma T.
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Childhood Conditions and Adult Health: Evidence from the Health
and Retirement Study
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WPS 98-02
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Dwyer, Debra Sabatini and Olivia S. Mitchell
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Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Rated Measures
Endogenous?
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WPS 98-01
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Preston, Samuel H., Irma T. Elo and Quincy Stewart
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Effects of Age Misreporting on Mortality Estimates at Older Ages
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1997
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WPS 97-14
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Elo, Irma T.
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Epidemiological Transition: Where are we today?
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In United Nations World Population Monitoring: Health and Mortality
Selected Aspects, 1998:138-159.
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WPS 97-13
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Rosenwaike, Ira, Mark Hill, Sam Preston and Irma T. Elo
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Linking Death Certificates to Early Census Records: The African
American Method Records Sample
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Historical Methods, Vol.13(2), Spring 1998:65-74.
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WPS 97-12
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Behrman, Jere R. and Mark R. Rosenzweig
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"Ability" Biases in Schooling Returns and Twins: A Test
and New Estimates
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Economics of Education Review, 18 (2): 159-167, 1999.
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WPS 97-11
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Sylvester J. Schieber
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Defined Contribution Pensions: New Opportunities, New Risks
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In Living with Defined Contribution Pensions. Olivia S.
Mitchell and Sylvester J. Schieber, eds.
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WPS 97-10
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Mitchell, Olivia S.
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Administrative Costs in Public and Private Retirement Systems
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In Privatizing Social Security. Martin Feldstein, ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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WPS 97-09
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Mitchell, Olivia S., James M. Poterba, and Mark J. Warshawsky
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New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities
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American Economic Review, December 1999: 1299-1318.
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WPS 97-08
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and James F. Moore
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Retirement Wealth Accumulation and Decumulation: New Developments
and Outstanding Opportunities
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Journal of Risk and Insurance, 65(3) December 1998: 371
400.
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WPS 97-07
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Mitchell, Olivia S.
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Building an Environment for Pension Reform in Developing Countries
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In Foundations of Pension Finance. Zvi Bodie and E Phillip
Davis, eds. London: Edward Elgar, 2000:480-503.
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WPS 97-06
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Michael Useem
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Holders of the Public Pension Strings: Governance and Performance
of Public Retirement Systems
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Social Science Quarterly, 81 (2): 491-506, 2000.
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WPS 97-05
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Mitchell, Olivia S., Alan L. Gustman, Andrew A.. Samwick, and Thomas
L. Steinmeier
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Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement
Study
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In Wealth, Work, and Health: Innovations in Survey Measurement
in the Social Sciences. Robert Willis, ed. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1999: 150-208.
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WPS 97-04
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Mitchell, Olivia S., Phillip B. Levine, and James Moore
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Women on the Verge of Retirement: Predictors of Retiree Well-Being
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In Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000: 167-207.
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WPS 97-03
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Preston, Samuel H., Mark E. Hill and Greg L. Drevenstedt
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Childhood Conditions that Predict Survival to Advanced Ages among
African Americans
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Social Science & Medicine, 47(9), November 1998:1231-1246.
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WPS 97-02
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Gragnolati, Michele, Irma Elo and Noreen Goldman
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New Insights Into the Far Eastern Pattern of Mortality
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WPS 97-01
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Merli, M. Giovanna
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Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989
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1996
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WPS 96-06
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Preston, Samuel H., Irma T. Elo and Lynn Gale
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Using Successive Censuses to Reconstruct the African-American Population,
1930-1990
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WPS 96-05
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Elo, Irma T.
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Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A
Review of the Evidence
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WPS 96-04
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Hussey, Jon M. and Irma T. Elo
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Consistency of Age Reporting By Cause of Death Among Elderly African-American
Decedents
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WPS 96-03
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Mitchell, Olivia S., Jan Olson and Thomas Stenmeier
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Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With
the Health and Retirement Survey
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WPS 96-02
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Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya
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Loneliness and Depression in Middle and Old Age: Are the Childless
More Vulnerable?
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WPS 96-01
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Advisory Council on Social Security Technical Panel on Assumptions
and Methods
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1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security Technical Panel on
Assumptions and Methods, Final Report
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1995
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WPS 95-06
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Mitchell, Olivia S and Joseph F. Quinn.
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1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security Technical Panel on
Trends and Issues in Retirement Saving Final Report
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WPS 95-05
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Hill, Mark E., Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo and Ira Rosenwaike
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Age-Linked Institutions and Age Reporting among Older African Americans
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WPS 95-04
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Rosenwaike, Ira and Mark E. Hill.
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The Accuracy of Age Reporting among Elderly African Americans:
Evidence of a Birth Registration Effect
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WPS 95-03
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Elo, Irma T., Samuel H. Preston, Ira Rosenwaike, Mark Hill and
Timothy P. Cheney
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Consistency of Age Reporting on Death Certificates and Social Security
Administration Records among Elderly African-American Decedents
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WPS 95-02
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Ewbank, Douglas
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Alzheimer's Disease as a Cause of Death in the U.S.: Estimates
and Projections
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WPS 95-01
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Preston, Samuel H. and Irma T. Elo
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Are Educational Differentials In Mortality Increasing in the United
States?
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1994
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WPS 94-02
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Ping-Lung Hsin
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Public Pension Governance and Performance
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WPS 94-01
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Mitchell, Olivia S. and Annika E. Sunden
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An Examination of Social Security Administration Costs in the United
States
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In The Economics of Pensions: Principles, Policies, and International
Experience. Salvador Valdes Prieto, ed., Cambride: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
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