"Living in sin" and marriage: A matching model

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 261-282

  Sahib, Padma Rao ^a   Gu, Xinhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Marriage; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036590693     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001480100073     Document Type: Article

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