Wealth, intelligence, politics and global fertility differentials

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 519-535

  Meisenberg, Gerhard ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MORTALITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIRTH RATE; ECONOMICS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 69249229877     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932009003344     Document Type: Article

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