Home improvements

Handbook on the Economics of Leisure

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 197-220

  Earl, Peter E ^a   Peng, Ti Ching ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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