An Examination of Changes in the Distribution of Wealth From 1989 to 1998: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
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The views presented in this paper are those of the author alone, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or its official staff. The author wishes to thank Rochelle Antoniewicz for sharing the flow of funds calculations used in this paper, Amber Lynn Lytle for research assistance, Annamaria Lusardi, Martha Starr-McCluer and John Weicher for comments on this paper, and Gerhard Fries and Barry Johnson for other critical help with the data. The author would particularly like to thank staff at NORC for collecting the data, and the survey respondents for generously sharing their information for research purposes. Any errors in this paper are the responsibility of the author alone.
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