Authors
Orazio Attanasio
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Hilary Hoynes
Research Fellow University of California, Berkeley
Hilary is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Suggested citation
Attanasio, O and Hoynes, H. (2000). 'Differential mortality and wealth accumulation' (2000)
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