Volume 43 - Article 2 | Pages 35–58  

Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course: Current research and opportunities for future work: Introduction to the Special Collection on “Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective”

By Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Clara H. Mulder

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