Fertility decline and the changing dynamics of wealth, status and inequality

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  Colleran, Heidi ^a,c   Jasienska, Grazyna ^b   Nenko, Ilona ^b   Galbarczyk, Andrzej ^b   Mace, Ruth ^c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic transition; Fertility decline; Inequality; Status; Wealth

Indexed keywords

CHILDBEARING; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RURAL AREA; SELF SUFFICIENCY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

POLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926360414     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0287     Document Type: Article

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