The role of region-specific institutionalized cultural characteristics on income inequality in the american south: The case of Georgia's Plantation Belt

Review of Regional Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Levernier, William B ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME INEQUALITY; RURAL ECONOMY;

USA, GEORGIA;

EID: 0030363188     PISSN: 0048749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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