Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe: The effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 641-668

  Michaud, Pierre Carl ^a,b,c   Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79956108784     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.1133     Document Type: Article

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