Volume 35 - Article 9 | Pages 229–252
The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme: Concept, content, and research examples
By Arianna Caporali, Sebastian Kluesener, Gerda Neyer, Sandra Krapf, Olga Grigorieva, Dora Kostova
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