Cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and the marriage process

Demographic Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Muscik, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Family; Marriage; Nonmarital fertility; Pregnancy intention status; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247481071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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