Global demographic convergence? A reconsideration of changing intercountry inequality in fertility

Population and Development Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 519-537

  Dorius, Shawn F ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FERTILITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AFRICA; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 51649086442     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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