Human capital, true love, and gender roles: Is sex destiny?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-178

  Engineer, Merwan ^a   Welling, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coordination; Gender roles; Human capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033211662     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2681(99)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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