Marriage squeeze in China's future

Asian Population Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 177-193

  Jiang, Quanbao ^a   Sánchez Barricarte, Jesús J ^b   Li, Shuzhuo ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First marriage partners; Marriage squeeze; Normalising; Sex ratio; Tempo effect

Indexed keywords

MARRIAGE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

CHINA;

EID: 80053543941     PISSN: 17441730     EISSN: 17441749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2011.608979     Document Type: Article

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