The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 317-340

  Trandafir, Mircea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Discrete time hazard model; Same sex marriage; Synthetic control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MARRIAGE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84893593930     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0248-7     Document Type: Article

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