From demographic transition to fertility boom and bust: Iran in the 1980s and 1990s

Development and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 571-597

  Hakimian, Hassan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FERTILITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION POLICY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745184190     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2006.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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