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Ideas and behavior in rural Nepal
How have changing ideas and socioeconomic conditions affected marriage and childbearing?
4/8/2011 feature story
In this five-year study, Arland Thornton, Bill Axinn, Jennifer Barber, and Dirgha Ghimire investigate how shifting ideational factors -- by themselves and in combination with changing socioeconomic conditions -- are influencing family behavior in rural Nepal.