Educational Differences in Completed Fertility: A Behavioral Genetic Study of Finnish Male and Female Twins

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1399-1420

  Nisén, Jessica ^a   Martikainen, Pekka ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a,b   Silventoinen, Karri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Behavioral genetics; Childlessness; Completed fertility; Educational differences; Male fertility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880111126     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0186-9     Document Type: Article

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