Personality Traits Increasingly Important for Male Fertility: Evidence from Norway

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 521-529

  Skirbekk, Vegard ^a   Blekesaune, Morten ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Childbearing; Cohort variation; Men's fertility; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914172366     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1936     Document Type: Article

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