Please see Arland Thornton's response to Ruggles' comments on Reading History Sideways [PDF] for more information.
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A survey concerning developmental idealism is currently being conducted in Nepal.
A. Thornton, D. Philipov. "Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Recently published in European Journal of Population.
Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad (eds), Family in the Middle East: Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. Routledge. 2008
The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.
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