Family Structure and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-National Effects of Polygyny.
This study applies multilevel logistic regression to Demographic and Health Survey data from 22 sub-Saharan African countries to examine whether the relationship between child mortality and family structure, with a specific emphasis on polygyny, varies cross-nationally and over time. Hypotheses were...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 528 - 544 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 2007
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