Poverty attitudes and their determinants in Lebanon's plural society

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 271-282

  Abouchedid, Kamal ^a   Nasser, Ramzi ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

2260; 2930; 2960; 3040; Causal attribution; Confessionalism; D6; I0; Poverty; Socio demographic differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035314838     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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