What's behind racial and ethnic fertility differentials?

Population and Development Review

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 109-133

  Forste, Renata ^a   Tienda, Marta ^a  

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EID: 28144462841     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2808008     Document Type: Article

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