The need for marriage contracts: An experimental study

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 431-453

  Oosterbeek, Hessel ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^a   Van Velzen, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Finance Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Experiments; Marriage contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043082472     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-003-0130-9     Document Type: Article

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