Personality and marital surplus

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lundberg, Shelly ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 84983358974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21938997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8997-1-3     Document Type: Article

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