New ideas and fertility limitation: The role of mass media

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1180-1200

  Barber, Jennifer S ^a   Axinn, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Childbearing; Contraception; Mass media; Nepal; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844233179     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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