Are the Japanese selfish, altruistic or dynastic?

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-54

  Horioka, Charles Yuji ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Bureau of Economic Research   (Japan)

^c Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL PROVISION; INCOME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036253768     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5876.00212     Document Type: Article

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