Specialization and Happiness: A U.S.-Japan Comparison
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Keywords
gender; family; marital happiness; specialization; bargaining;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2006-07-21 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2006-07-21 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-SEA-2006-07-21 (South East Asia)
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