Dealing with money in lowto moderate-income couples: Insights from individual interviews

Social Policy Review 19: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 151-173

  Sung, Sirin ^a   Bennett, Fran ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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