Marital timing and marital assimilation variation and change among european americans between 1910 and 1980

Historical Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-148

  Sassler, Sharon ^a   Qian, Zhenchao ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Ethnicity; Immigrant adaptation; Marriage; Timing

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MARRIAGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942301946     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440309601606     Document Type: Article

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