Marriage timing in Nepal: Organizational effects and individual mechanisms

Social Forces

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 559-586

  Yabiku, Scott T ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 13544263505     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2005.0023     Document Type: Review

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