Breschi, Marco; Manfredini, Matteo; Mazzoni, Stanislao - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 33, pp. 1037-1056
This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero … health in the possibility of social mobility through marriage. Our findings demonstrate that, whereas physical defects and … and the family had the final say on marriage arrangements, it is likely that only healthy individuals were selected for …