When Do Laws Matter? National Minimum-Age-of-Marriage Laws, Child Rights, and Adolescent Fertility, 1989-2007

Law and Society Review

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 589-619

  Kim, Minzee ^a   Longhofer, Wesley ^b   Boyle, Elizabeth Heger ^c   Nyseth Brehm, Hollie ^c  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 84880668331     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: 15405893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lasr.12033     Document Type: Article

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