Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests

Jeffrey Brown
Published Date
Copyright 2001
ISBN 0-226-90284-6
Themes Economics Aging
Book: Themes in the Economics of Aging
Book editor: David A. Wise
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: The Economics of Aging
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