Social networks and getting a home: Do contacts matter?

Social Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-51

  Röper, Andrea ^a   Völker, Beate ^a   Flap, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Housing satisfaction; Returns of social contacts; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649085077     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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