Social capital and intimate partnership in later life: A gendered perspective on 60+ year-old Israelis

Social Networks

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 330-338

  Spalter, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gender; Later life; Repartnering; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956940743     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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