Failure to Realize Fertility Intentions: A Key Aspect of the Post-communist Fertility Transition

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 393-418

  Spéder, Zsolt ^a   Kapitány, Balázs ^a  

^a Demographic Research Institute Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fertility; Fertility intention; Longitudinal study in fertility; Post communist fertility transition

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; SOCIAL STATUS;

WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84898546661     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-013-9313-6     Document Type: Article

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