Rational choice and the price of marriage

Feminist Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-49

  Cherry, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Marriage; Patriarchy; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042937487     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135457098338545     Document Type: Article

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