Seasonality of birth in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Austria

Social Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 201-217

  Doblhammer, Gabriele ^a   Rodgers, Joseph Lee ^b   Rau, Roland ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRTH RATE; CLIMATE; HUMAN; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; AUSTRIA; BIRTH RATE; CLIMATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; SEASONS;

EID: 0034286097     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2000.9989019     Document Type: Article

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