Financial Practices in Cohabiting Heterosexual Couples: A Perspective from Economic Psychology

Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets: An Inter-Disciplinary Study

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-108

  Burgoyne, Carole ^a   Sonnenberg, Stefanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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