Designing social interventions to improve newcomer adjustment: Insights from the Indian sex worker community

Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-285

  Umashankar, Nita ^a   Srinivasan, Raji ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Newcomer adjustment; Peer influence; Social intervention; Social marketing; Socialization; Subsistence markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890255085     PISSN: 07439156     EISSN: 15477207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jppm.12.085     Document Type: Article

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