Assortative meeting and mating: Unintended consequences of organized settings for partner choices

Social Forces

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1289-1312

  Kalmijn, Matthijs ^a   Flap, Henk ^a  

^a Department of Sociology ^*

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EID: 0035535070     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2001.0044     Document Type: Article

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