Population momentum across the demographic transition

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 721-747

  Blue, Laura ^a   Espenshade, Thomas J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HISTORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 83455179309     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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