Splitting up or getting married?: Competing risk analysis of transitions among cohabiting couples in Sweden

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-247

  Moors, Guy ^a   Bernhardt, Eva ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cohabitation; Evaluations; Intentions; Marriage; Reasoned action; Second demographic transition; Separation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349485622     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: 15023869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001699309339800     Document Type: Article

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