Structural and diffusion effects in the Dutch fertility transition, 1870-1940

Demographic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-186

  Bras, Hilde ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.5     Document Type: Article

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