Educational homogamy in 65 countries: An explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables

American Sociological Review

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 264-285

  Smits, Jeroen ^a   Ultee, Wout ^b   Lammers, Jan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL HOMOGAMY; RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS;

EID: 0031834307     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657327     Document Type: Article

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