New directions in life course research

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 413-433

  Mayer, Karl Ulrich ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event history; Human development; Longitudinal analysis; Trajectories; Transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449819987     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134619     Document Type: Article

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