The secular increase in fecundity in German village populations: An analysis of reproductive histories of couples married 1750-1899

Population Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 53-84

  Knodel, J ^a   Wilson, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE;

DEMOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0019391156     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1981.10404953     Document Type: Article

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