The Rise and Fall of Divorce: A Sociological Extension of Becker's Model of the Marriage Market

Journal of Mathematical Sociology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-124

  Andersen, Signe Hald ^a   Hansen, Lars Gårn ^b  

^a 2tv DK 1307 Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

family; simulation; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859579671     PISSN: 0022250X     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022250X.2011.556768     Document Type: Article

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