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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

"3rd of tha Month": Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks?

  • Melvin Stephens Jr.
American Economic Review
vol. 93, no. 1, March 2003
(pp. 406–422)
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Citation

Stephens, Melvin Jr. 2003. ""3rd of tha Month": Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks? ." American Economic Review, 93 (1): 406–422. DOI: 10.1257/000282803321455386

JEL Classification

  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
  • H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
  • D91 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving