Too materialistic to get married and have children?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Li, Norman P ^a   Lim, Amy J Y ^a   Tsai, Ming Hong ^a   Jiaqing, O ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE HISTORY; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; PATH ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SINGAPORE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH RATE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957588828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126543     Document Type: Article

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