Intrahousehold allocation of financial resources: Evidence from South Korean individual bank accounts

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-58

  Lee, Jungmin ^a,b   Pocock, Mark L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Household bargaining; Savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947407998     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-007-9004-3     Document Type: Article

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