How does education change the relationship between fertility and age-dependency under environmental constraints? A long-term simulation exercise

Demographic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 465-492

  Striessnig, Erich ^a   Lutz, Wolfgang ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

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EID: 84897783729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.16     Document Type: Article

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