Shaping intergenerational relationships: The demonstration effect

Economics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-261

  Jellal, Mohamed ^a   Wolff, François Charles ^b  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

D10; Demonstration effect; Imitation; Intergenerational transfer; J10

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034372740     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(00)00247-0     Document Type: Article

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