How do families manage their economic hardship?

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 358-368

  Baek, Eunyoung ^a   DeVaney, Sharon A ^b  

^a Kyung Hee Cyber University   (South Korea)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic hardship; Multinomial logit; Unemployment; Use of credit; Use of savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956545754     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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