Explaining Why So Many People Do Not Save
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- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
There are vast differences in wealth holdings, even among households in similar age groups. In addition, a large percentage of U.S. households arrive close to rKeywords
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