Not Even if You Were the Last Person on Earth! How Marital Search Constraints Affect the Likelihood of Marriage

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-181

  Raley, R Kelly ^b   Bratter, Jenifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitudes; Marriage; Mate selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142290611     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X03256515     Document Type: Review

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