Do secure land use rights reduce fertility? The case of Meitan county in China

Land Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-55

  Kung, James Kai Sing ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; GENDER ROLE; LAND RIGHTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33644694191     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2005.11.019     Document Type: Article

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