Educational assortative marriage in comparative perspective

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 513-530

  Blossfeld, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender specific partnerHpreferences; Homogamy; Homophily; Marriage markets; Mate choice; Social inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449176176     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115913     Document Type: Article

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