Is low fertility a twenty-first-century demographic crisis?

Demography

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-603

  Morgan, S Philip ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARITY; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WOMEN, WORKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 1542676738     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1515198     Document Type: Article

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