The role of time preference and perspective in socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviours

Social Inequality and Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-24

  Adams, Jean ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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