Education as Policy: The Impact of Education on Marriage, Contraception, and Fertility in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia

Social Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 194-213

  Heaton, Tim B ^a   Forste, Renata ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE--CHANGES; DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; FERTILITY SURVEYS; FERTILITY--CHANGES; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE--CHANGES; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; METHODOLOGY; NUPTIALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERU; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS; STUDIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD FERTILITY SURVEYS;

AMERICAS; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE--CHANGES; DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; FERTILITY SURVEYS; FERTILITY--CHANGES; LATIN AMERICA; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE--CHANGES; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUPTIALITY; PERU; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTH AMERICA; STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WORLD FERTILITY SURVEYS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; PERU; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032152618     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1998.9988973     Document Type: Article

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