Fertility of Mexican immigrant women in the U.S.: A closer look

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1073-1086

  Carter, Marion ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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