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We thank Daniel Markovits and Daniel Silverman for helpful discussions and comments. This paper has also benefited from suggestions by the participants of seminars at several universities and conferences. We thank the American Life Panel team at the RAND Corporation for software development and technical and administrative support. We acknowledge financial support from the Center for Equitable Growth (CEG) at the University of California, Berkeley. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications