Mate availability and the transition to unwed motherhood: a paradox of population structure.
A study was conducted to examine the influence of mate availability on the timing of young women's first marriage and first premarital birth. Data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the 1980 census, and information on subjects' secondary school were analyzed. Results reveal that t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 58; pp. 265 - 280 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 1996
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