Marriage and consumption insurance: What's love got to do with it?

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 290-318

  Hess, Gregory D ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVORCE; ECONOMIC THEORY; INCOME; MARRIAGE;

EID: 2542475531     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381477     Document Type: Article

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