Conscientious consumers? Preferences, personality and expenditure in the UK
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Personality; Five Factor Model; Expenditures; Leisure; UK;All these keywords.
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- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
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