Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel

Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

NBER Working Paper No. 17974
Issued in April 2012

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We are grateful to the National Institute on Aging for research support and funding for data collection under grants P01 AG008291, P01 AG022481, P30 AG012815, and R01 AG020717. We are grateful to the Social Security Administration for funding of data collection and research support. Many thanks to the ALP team for their assistance with the data collection, to Joanna Carroll and Angela Miu for programming support, and to Alessandro Malchiodi for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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