Taboos and identity: Considering the unthinkable

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-164

  Fershtman, Chaim ^a,b   Gneezy, Uri ^c   Hoffman, Moshe ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 79958221508     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.3.2.139     Document Type: Article

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