Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 471-492

  Raymo, James M ^a   Park, Hyunjoon ^b   Xie, Yu ^c   Yeung, Wei Jun Jean ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

development; fertility; gender; marriage; second demographic transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939639295     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112428     Document Type: Article

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