Childbearing impeded education more than education impeded childbearing among Norwegian women

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 11830-11835

  Cohen, Joel E ^a   Kravdal, Øystein ^b   Keilman, Nico ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Birth rate; Hazard regression; Norway; Parity; Reverse causality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORWAY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FINLAND; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARITY;

EID: 79961093480     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107993108     Document Type: Article

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