Effects of current education on second- and third-birth rates among Norwegian women and men born in 1964: Substantive interpretations and methodological issues

Demographic Research

Volumn 17, Issue , 2007, Pages 211-246

  Kravdal, Øystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 36349024749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.9     Document Type: Article

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