Family Formation Trajectories in Romania, the Russian Federation and France: Towards the Second Demographic Transition?;Trajectoires de formation de la famille en Roumanie, en Fédération de Russie et en France: En direction de la Seconde Transition Démographique?

European Journal of Population

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-101

  Potârcǎ, Gina ^a   Mills, Melinda ^a   Lesnard, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Groupe de Travail Archives de la Recherche de la Section AURORE   (France)

Author keywords

Cross national comparison; Partnerships and fertility trajectories; Sequence analysis; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

CHILDBEARING; COHABITATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POST-COMMUNISM;

FRANCE; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84874275008     PISSN: 01686577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-012-9279-9     Document Type: Article

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