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How Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives?

Considering Husbands’ and Wives’ Benefits Separately

Alice M. Henriques
Journal of Human Resources, March 2018, 53 (2) 382-413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.53.2.1212-5371R2
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vol. 53 no. 2 382-413
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.53.2.1212-5371R2
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
History 
  • Received December 1, 2012
  • Accepted December 1, 2016
  • Published online April 11, 2018.

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