Commitment, risk, and consumption: Do birds of a feather have bigger nests?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 408-424

  Shore, Stephen H ^a   Sinai, Todd ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 77955169238     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.2010.11380     Document Type: Article

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