Advances in development reverse fertility declines

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7256, 2009, Pages 741-743

  Myrskylä, Mikko ^a   Kohler, Hans Peter ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIRTH RATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 68449084730     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08230     Document Type: Article

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