Land inheritance establishes sibling competition for marriage and reproduction in rural Ethiopia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2200-2204

  Gibson, Mhairi A ^a   Gurmu, Eshetu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Demographic transition; Local resource competition; Parental investment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL AREA; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; REPRODUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SIBLINGS; WILLS;

EID: 79952287541     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010241108     Document Type: Article

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