The formation and outcomes of cohabiting and marital partnerships in early adulthood: The role of previous partnership experience

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 757-779

  Steele, Fiona ^a   Kallis, Constantinos ^b   Joshi, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple states; Partnership dissolution; Partnership formation; Repeated events; Simultaneous equations model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748766836     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00420.x     Document Type: Review

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