On the cultural evolution of age-at-marriage norms

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 139-157

  Billari, Francesco C ^a   Prskawetz, Alexia ^b   Fürnkranz, Johannes ^c  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MARRIAGE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; MARRIAGE; MODELING;

EID: 2942730140     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2715-6_8     Document Type: Article

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