"Fertility effect" or "supporting effect?"-Quantity of children and parental health

Frontiers of Economics in China

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 601-616

  Chen, Guodong ^a   Lei, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fertility effect; Parental health; Quantity of children; Supporting effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949575689     PISSN: 16733444     EISSN: 16733568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11459-009-0032-1     Document Type: Article

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