Partnership Patterns in the United States and across Europe: The Role of Education and Country Context.
Patterns of partnership formation and dissolution are changing dramatically across the Western world. Some scholars have argued that women's trajectories of union formation and dissolution are diverging by education, with the higher educated postponing but eventually marrying and the lower educated...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 251 - 282 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2016
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