Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 545, 2010, Pages 709-736

  Miller, Grant ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 77953881717     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02306.x     Document Type: Article

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