Gender, social change, and educational attainment

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 109-134

  Beutel, Ann M ^a   Axinn, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; GENDER RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

NEPAL;

EID: 0036820306     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345517     Document Type: Article

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