China's divorce and remarriage rates: Trends and regional disparities

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-267

  Wang, Qingbin ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Divorce rate; Economic transition; Pooled time series and cross sectional data; Regression analysis; Remarriage rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951980254     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10502551003597949     Document Type: Article

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