Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: Evidence from Malawi

Demography

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-63

  Ueyama, Mika ^a   Yamauchi, Futoshi ^b  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALAWI; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLING; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLINGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449143531     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0039     Document Type: Article

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