How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 81-112

  Sear, Rebecca ^a   Coall, David ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 79251500385     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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