The role of agent-based modelling in demographic explanation

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 41-54

  Chattoe, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; MODELING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4644372209     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2715-6_3     Document Type: Article

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