Pathways from fertility history to later life health: Results from analyses of the English longitudinal study of ageing

Demographic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-146

  Grundy, Emily ^a   Read, Sanna ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84921652664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.4     Document Type: Article

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