Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Economic Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 587, 2015, Pages 1191-1226

  Hazan, Moshe ^a   Zoabi, Hosny ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The New Economic School   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FERTILITY; WOMENS STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941025313     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12148     Document Type: Article

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