The impact of homeownership on marriage and divorce: Evidence from propensity score matching

Social Work Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 73-90

  Grinstein Weiss, Michal ^a   Manturuk, Kim R ^b   Guo, Shenyang ^b   Charles, Pajarita ^c   Key, Clinton ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Homeownership; Marriage; Propensity score analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903988975     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: 15456838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/svu016     Document Type: Article

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