Volume 22 - Article 33 | Pages 1037–1056
Health and socio-demographic conditions as determinants of marriage and social mobility: Male partner choice in Sardinia, late 19th-early 20th century
By Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini, Stanislao Mazzoni
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