Mirror, mirror on the wall: The effect of time spent grooming on earnings

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-34

  Das, Jayoti ^a   De Loach, Stephen B ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings, Time use; Grooming

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650984891     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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