Demography, culture, and policy: Understanding Japan's low fertility

Population and Development Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-326

  Boling, Patricia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; LABOR MARKET; POPULATION POLICY;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; FRANCE; JAPAN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45749102918     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00221.x     Document Type: Article

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