Chapter 52 Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

Handbook of Development Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 3249-3303

  Schultz, T Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

child quality; consequences of fertility decline; evaluation of population policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849122825     PISSN: 15734471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04052-1     Document Type: Review

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