Dynamic savings decisions in agricultural environments with incomplete markets

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 282-292

  Behrman, Jere R ^a   Foster, Andrew ^a   Rosenzweig, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit; Financial intermediation; Pakistan; Sequential decision making; Transfers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031504035     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1997.10524706     Document Type: Article

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