Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States

Raj Chetty & Adam Looney
Published Date
Copyright 2007
ISBN 978-0-226-38681-2
Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia
Book: Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia
Book editors: Takatoshi Ito & Andrew K. Rose
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: East Asia Seminar on Economics
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