Expenditure decisions in single-parent households

Family Investments in Children's Potential: Resources and Parenting Behaviors That Promote Success

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 181-208

  Ziol Guest, Kathleen M ^a   Kalil, Ariel ^a   DeLeire, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610874     Document Type: Chapter

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