Aggregate age-at-marriage patterns from individual mate-search heuristics

Demography

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 559-574

  Todd, Peter M ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^b   Simão, Jorge ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

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EID: 26044477570     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2005.0027     Document Type: Article

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