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Male-skewed sex ratios among North American settlers led to women marrying earlier and men later, in study of St. Lawrence Valley colonies

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Share of men in the unmarried population and mean age at first marriage by sex.

image: Share of men in the unmarried population and mean age at first marriage by sex (PRDH data, 1680–1750). view more 

Credit: Filser, Willführ, 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Male-skewed sex ratios among North American settlers led to women marrying earlier and men later, in study of St. Lawrence Valley colonies

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268039

Article Title: Sex ratios and union formation in the historical population of the St. Lawrence Valley

Author Countries: Germany, Sweden

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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