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Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Jonathan P. Latner, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2016, 2 (6) 44-58; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.03
Jonathan Fisher
aResearch scholar at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University
David Johnson
bDeputy director of PSID and research professor at the University of Michigan
Jonathan P. Latner
cPostdoctoral fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Timothy Smeeding
dLee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin
Jeffrey Thompson
ePrincipal economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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