The economics and sociology of marriage: Historical trends and theories of in-marriage household labor

The Expansion of Economics: Toward a More Inclusive Social Science

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 163-193

  Grossbard Shechtman, Shoshana ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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