Aggregate age-at-marriage patterns from individual mate-search heuristics
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Aggregate age-at-marriage patterns from individual mate-search heuristics.
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2005.0027