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Ideas, marriage, and childbearing
How values, beliefs, and social structures influence union formation and fertility in Nepal
9/1/2010 feature story
Arland Thornton, Bill Axinn, Jennifer Barber, and Dirgha Ghimire investigate how ideational and socioeconomic structures influence marriage behavior, contraception, and childbearing in Nepal. This project makes use of rich data collected in the Chitwan Valley Family Study.