Did fertility go up after the Oklahoma City bombing? An analysis of births in metropolitan counties in Oklahoma, 1990-1999

Demography

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 675-692

  Rodgers, Joseph Lee ^a   St John, Craig A ^a   Coleman, Ronnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DISASTER; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MOTHER; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH RATE; DISASTERS; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; OKLAHOMA; TERRORISM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33646593506     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2005.0034     Document Type: Article

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