Volume 33 - Article 30 | Pages 871–908  

Socio-economic determinants of divorce in Lithuania: Evidence from register-based census-linked data

By Ausra Maslauskaite, Aiva Jasilioniene, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladislava Stankuniene, Vladimir Shkolnikov

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