Gender and financial accounts in marriage

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-16

  Singh, Supriya ^a   Morley, Clive ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

banking; gender; joint and separate accounts; marriage; quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952596878     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1440783310386824     Document Type: Article

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