Bridewealth and birth control: Low fertility in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1900

Population and Development Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-214

  Boomgaard, Peter ^a,b  

^a Southeast Asian/Caribbean Studs   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; MARRIAGE; POPULATION GROWTH;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0041386376     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2003.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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