Men's Migration and Women's Fertility in Rural Mozambique

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1029-1048

  Agadjanian, Victor ^a   Yabiku, Scott T ^a   Cau, Boaventura ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Contraception; Fertility; Labor migration; Mozambique; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960536435     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0039-y     Document Type: Article

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