A Demographic Explanation for the Recent Rise in European Fertility

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-120

  Bongaarts, John ^a   Sobotka, Tomáš ^b  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDBEARING; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FERTILITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GROWTH; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FERTILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BIRTH RATE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CZECH REPUBLIC; NETHERLANDS; SPAIN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84858791675     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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