Locational Concentrations of Military Retirees in the United StatesFootnote∗

∗The authors would like to thank Sent Visser, Darrell Napton, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. We also thank Anu Day for her editorial assistance.

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