Financial transfers from living parents to adult children: Who is helped and why?

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-239

  Berry, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 44349090927     PISSN: 00029246     EISSN: 15367150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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