Games parents and adolescents play: Risky behaviour, parental reputation and strategic transfers

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 528, 2008, Pages 515-555

  Hao, Lingxin ^a   Hotz, Joseph V ^b   Jin, Ginger Z ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; MODELING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 41149172670     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02132.x     Document Type: Article

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