Till debt do us part: A model of divorce and personal bankruptcy

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-52

  Fisher, Jonathan D ^a   Lyons, Angela C ^b  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Personal bankruptcy; Simultaneous equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645750350     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-005-6696-0     Document Type: Article

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