Maternal Age and Offspring Adult Health: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study

Demography

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1231-1257

  Myrskylä, Mikko ^a   Fenelon, Andrew ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Maternal age; Maternal education; Orphanhood; Reproductive aging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869129547     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0132-x     Document Type: Article

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