Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States

Demographic Research

Volumn 27, Issue , 2012, Pages 377-418

  Shoff, Carla ^a   Yang, Tse Chuan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84870315939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.27.14     Document Type: Article

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