Low fertility at the turn of the twenty-first century

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 375-399

  Morgan, S Philip ^a   Taylor, Miles G ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Childbearing; Demographic theory; Fertility decline; Population equilibrium; Population replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749185309     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.31.041304.122220     Document Type: Review

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