Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment, and Intergenerational Inequality: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study

Demography

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 525-552

  Härkönen, Juho ^a,b   Kaymakçalan, Hande ^c   Mäki, Pirjo ^d,e   Taanila, Anja ^d,e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Education; Intergenerational inequality; Prenatal health; Social background

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859499145     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0092-1     Document Type: Article

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