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- Some preliminary findings from the project on which this paper is based were presented to the 1993 annual meetings of the American Statistical Association in a paper entitled “An Apparent Invariance of the Size Distribution of Personal Income Conditioned on Education,” which appears in the Proceedings of those meetings. Thanks to Prof. Francois Nielsen for comments.