Ethnicity and household expenditures: Furnishings, fashion, and flux?

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-159

  Dyer, Barbara ^a   Burnsed, Katherine Annette ^a   Dyer, Carl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

CEX; Consumption; Ethnicity; Home furnishings; Household expenditures

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249159816     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X06292934     Document Type: Article

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