Parity progression in Australia: What role does sex of existing children play?

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-520

  Gray, Edith ^a   Evans, Ann ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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