Sichelstiel, Gerhard; Söllner, Fritz - In: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 5 (2004) 3, pp. 249-270
This paper discusses the question of similarity between husband and wife (or, more generally, between the partners of a long-term relationship) from the point of view of economics. Four different economic approaches are presented: Becker's economics of the family, the theory of exchange, the...