Fifty years of family planning: New evidence on the long-run effects of increasing access to contraception

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue SPRING 2013, 2013, Pages 341-395

  Bailey, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84887784350     PISSN: 00072303     EISSN: 15334465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/eca.2013.0001     Document Type: Article

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