Has East Germany overtaken West Germany? Recent trends in order-specific fertility

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 453-472

  Goldstein, Joshua R ^a   Kreyenfeld, Michael ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FAMILY SIZE; FERTILITY; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIRTH RATE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FERTILITY; GERMANY, EAST; GERMANY, WEST; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

GERMANY;

EID: 80052397151     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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