Making friends: A nonexperimental analysis of social pair formation

Human Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1443-1465

  Foster, Gigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ability; Education; Fixed effects; Friendship; Group dynamics; Peer effects; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744457782     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705061313     Document Type: Review

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