Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 625-639

  Himmelweit, Susan ^a   Santos, Cristina ^a   Sevilla, Almudena ^b   Sofer, Catherine ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Collective models; Family economics; Family resource management; Gender; Inequality; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878005509     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12032     Document Type: Article

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