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What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States?

In: Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

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  • Orazio Attanasio
  • Erich Battistin
  • Hidehiko Ichimura
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  • Orazio Attanasio & Erich Battistin & Hidehiko Ichimura, 2007. "What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States?," NBER Chapters, in: Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches, pages 515-543, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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