Women's autonomy and its impact on fertility

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1793-1809

  Abadian, Sousan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; FERTILITY IMPACT; FERTILITY REDUCTION; POPULATION FERTILITY; WOMEN'S AUTONOMY; WOMEN'S EDUCATION; WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT;

EID: 0030406126     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(96)00075-7     Document Type: Article

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