The impact of women's status on infant mortality rate: A cross-national analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 333-360

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Williamson, John B ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING REGION; GENDER STRATIFICATION; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; MORTALITY FACTOR; POPULATION FERTILITY; WOMEN'S STATUS;

EID: 0030483995     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00286237     Document Type: Article

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