Intermarriage and the risk of divorce in the Netherlands: The effects of differences in religion and in nationality, 1974-94

Population Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-85

  Kalmijn, Matthijs ^a   de Graaf, Paul M ^b   Janssen, Jacques P G ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Divorce; Ethnicity; Heterogamy; Intermarriage; Marriage; Nationality; Religion

Indexed keywords

DIVORCE; MARRIAGE; RELIGION;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14744283890     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472052000332719     Document Type: Article

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