Marriage choices and social reproduction: The interrelationship between partner selection and intergenerational socioeconomic mobility in 19th-century Sweden

Demographic Research

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 347-382

  Dribe, Martin ^a   Lundh, Christer ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 77952019247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.14     Document Type: Article

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