International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework

Demography

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 677-698

  Thornton, Arland ^a   Binstock, Georgina ^b   Yount, Kathryn M ^c   Abbasi Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal ^d   Ghimire, Dirgha ^a   Xie, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Development; Developmental idealism; Fertility; Globalization; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859503643     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0097-9     Document Type: Article

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