Social class and the fertility transition: A critical comment on the statistical results reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860-1940

Economic History Review

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1267-1279

  Barnes, Geoffrey A ^a   Guinnane, Timothy W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; FERTILITY; GENDER; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84867335351     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00631.x     Document Type: Article

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