Economic incentives for financial and residential independence

Demography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-97

  Whittington, Leslie A ^a   Peters, H Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INCOME TAX; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030076125     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061715     Document Type: Article

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