Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Quisumbing, Agnes R ^a   Behrman, Jere R ^b   Maluccio, John A ^a   Murphy, Alexis ^a   Yount, Kathryn M ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative matching; Gender gap; Guatemala; Human Capital Study; Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP); Marriage patterns

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; MARRIAGE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21344453977     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265050262s106     Document Type: Article

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