Mental budgeting and the management of household finance

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 546-555

  Antonides, Gerrit ^a   Manon de Groot, I ^b   Fred van Raaij, W ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Tax and Customs Administration   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Financial management; Mental budgeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961168119     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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