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SECONDARY SEX RATIO AND MARRIAGE AFTER DISASTER: A REPLY TO O'DONNELL AND BEHIE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2014

YURI HAMAMATSU ,
CHIHO WATANABE  and
MASAHIRO UMEZAKI
YURI HAMAMATSU*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
CHIHO WATANABE
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
MASAHIRO UMEZAKI
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
*
1Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 417 - 420
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