Home ownership and the decision to overspend

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 7, Issue , 1996, Pages 97-106

  Jayathirtha, Chandrika ^a   Fox, Jonathan J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer expenditure survey; Housing tenure; Life cycle savings model; Overspending

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951150902     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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