Widening the View: Capturing “Unobserved” Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-68

  Kelley Moore, Jessica A ^a   Lin, Jielu ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Birth Cohort; Marital Satisfaction; Selective Mortality; Social Selection; Unobserved Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954877401     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7374-0_4     Document Type: Chapter

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