Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oreffice, Sonia ^a   Quintana Domeque, Climent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Collective model; Hours worked

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983268348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21938997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8997-1-6     Document Type: Article

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