Educational assortative mating across marriage markets: Non-Hispanic whites in the United States

Demography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-40

  Lewis, Susan K ^b   Oppenheimer, Valerie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; RISK; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARRIAGE; ODDS RATIO; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034138077     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648094     Document Type: Article

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