The economic consequences of partnership dissolution: A comparative analysis of panel studies from Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Sweden

When Marriage Ends: Economic and Social Consequences of Partnership Dissolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 286-325

  Andreß, Hans Jürgen ^a   Borgloh, Barbara ^b   Bröckel, Miriam ^b   Gießelmann, Marco ^a   Hummelsheim, Dina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW   (Germany)

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