Economic, social and spatial dimensions of India's excess child masculinity

Population

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-118

  Guilmoto, Christophe Z ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Université Paris Descartes   (France)

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EID: 47649109884     PISSN: 16342941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/pope.801.0091     Document Type: Article

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