The role of relative cohort size and relative income in the demographic transition

Population and Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-192

  Macunovich, Diane J ^a  

^a Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FERTILITY; INCOME;

GOES;

EID: 0033393078     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02436113     Document Type: Article

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