The impact of banking and fringe banking regulation on the number of unbanked Americans

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 106-137

  Washington, Ebonya ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Bureau of Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 33645399044     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.xli.1.106     Document Type: Article

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