The Effect of Distributive Justice on Willingness to Pay for Municipality Child Care: An Extension of the GEF Hypothesis

Social Justice Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-142

  Eek, Daniel ^a   Biel, Anders ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Public goods dilemmas; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007290587     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023203320261     Document Type: Article

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