The emergence of lowest-low fertility in Europe during the 1990s;L'émergence du taux de fécondité de faible au plus faible en Europe durant les années 1990

Population and Development Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 641-680

  Kohler, Hans Peter ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^b   Ortega, José Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CHILDBEARING; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0037004468     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2002.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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