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The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

Dorrit Posel School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban 4001, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Daniela Casale School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban 4001, South Africa
Pages 663-676 | Published online: 10 Oct 2011

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Amy Thornton. (2024) Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011. Development Southern Africa 41:2, pages 243-275.
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Dorrit Posel, Dambala Gelo, Daniela Casale & Adeola Oyenubi. (2024) Sorting the Gender Earnings Gap: Heterogeneity in the South African Labor Market. Feminist Economics 30:1, pages 106-133.
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Dulcineia Januário, Isabel Narciso, Salomé Vieira-Santos, Gabriela Fonseca & Ana Paula Relvas. (2018) First Journey by a Descriptive Review of Empirical Research on African Marital Relationships—Scientific Dissemination, Thematic Focus, and Methodology. Marriage & Family Review 54:3, pages 259-281.
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Dorrit Posel. (2017) Enriching economics in South Africa: interdisciplinary collaboration and the value of quantitative – qualitative exchanges. Journal of Economic Methodology 24:2, pages 119-133.
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Michael W. Yarbrough. (2015) SOUTH AFRICAN MARRIAGE IN POLICY AND PRACTICE: A DYNAMIC STORY. South African Review of Sociology 46:4, pages 5-23.
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Stephanie Rudwick & Dorrit Posel. (2015) Zulu bridewealth (ilobolo) and womanhood in South Africa. Social Dynamics 41:2, pages 289-306.
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Amy Thornton. (2023) Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa. Population, Space and Place 29:8.
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Tadios Chisango, Itai Mafa & Langtone Maunganidze. (2022) Investigating the Sexist Implications of Bride Price (Lobola) in Zimbabwe. Society 59:5, pages 564-575.
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Dorrit Posel. (2021) Living alone and depression in a developing country context: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa. SSM - Population Health 14, pages 100800.
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Christie Sennott, Sangeetha Madhavan & Youngeun Nam. (2020) Modernizing Marriage: Balancing the Benefits and Liabilities of Bridewealth in Rural South Africa. Qualitative Sociology 44:1, pages 55-75.
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Caro C. Janse van Rensburg, Carike Claassen & Alicia Fourie. (2019) The relationship between marital status and employment in South Africa. Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences 12:1.
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Johannes Norling. (2019) Family planning and fertility in South Africa under apartheid. European Review of Economic History 23:3, pages 365-395.
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Dieter von Fintel & Eldridge Moses. (2018) Migration and gender in South Africa: Following bright lights and the fortunes of others?. Regional Science Policy & Practice 9:4, pages 251-268.
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Dorrit Posel & Erofili Grapsa. (2017) Time to learn? Time allocations among children in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development 56, pages 1-10.
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Njeri Wabiri, Olive Shisana, Khangelani Zuma & Jeffrey Freeman. (2016) Assessing the spatial nonstationarity in relationship between local patterns of HIV infections and the covariates in South Africa: A geographically weighted regression analysis. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 16, pages 88-99.
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Dorrit Posel & Stephanie Rudwick. (2014) Marriage and Bridewealth ( Ilobolo ) in Contemporary Zulu Society . African Studies Review 57:2, pages 51-72.
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