Fertility in developing countries

Understanding Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Eswaran, Mukesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child labor; Children; Economic development; Female autonomy; Mortality; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892795296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195305191.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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