Population-wide marriage patterns produced by individual mate-search heuristics

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 117-137

  Todd, Peter M ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; HEURISTICS; MARRIAGE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 4644246792     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2715-6_7     Document Type: Article

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