Decoupling migration effects from income effects on reproduction in central American migrant-sending households

International Migration Review

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 325-347

  Davis, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; FERTILITY; INCOME; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CENTRAL AMERICA; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FERTILITY; HISTORY; INCOME; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BIRTH RATE; CENTRAL AMERICA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INCOME; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY;

COSTA RICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; NICARAGUA;

EID: 79959724203     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2011.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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